Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:50:06PM +0900, Takayuki Tsunakawa wrote:
> > From: "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> > > Are you entirely sure that ntstatus.h is where to look? Because per
> > > whatever docs I've found, that contains "device driver errors" and
> > *not*
> > > exception codes.
> >
> > Yes, what you are pointing out is correct. winbase.h and winnt.h
> > should be consulted instead of ntstatus.h. See the the section
> > "Return Value" in the following page:
> >
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/ms679356.aspx
> >
> > Furthermore, the message is meaningless for users because they can do
> > nothing with the information. So, I think the message should say
> > something like
> >
> > child process was terminated by exception %X
> > This seems to be a bug of PostgreSQL.
> > Please report this message with the details of the phynomenon to
> > PostgreSQL developers.
> >
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think that's incorrect information to the user :-(
> If the child terminates with exit(1), we will then say "child process
> was terminated by exception 1. This seems to be a bug", which is clearly
> not true.
>
> Unless you know a sure way of determining if the exitcode is a normal
> exitcode or an exception code.

Current CVS believes values >= 0x100 are non-exit() terminations.

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