Re: Win32 WEXITSTATUS too simplistic

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Win32 WEXITSTATUS too simplistic
Date: 2006-12-26 20:01:18
Message-ID: 28111.1167163278@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Anyone want to run down what we should really
>> be using instead of the above macros?

> The exit code is apparently what is reported from GetExitCodeProcess().
> For info on that see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/getexitcodeprocess.asp

> I think we are possibly seeing the third case, i.e. the code from an
> unhandled exception. I haven't managed to find an API to handle them
> though ...

Right ... but I don't think we want to "handle the exception". The
right question to be asking is "what is the encoding of these 'exception
values' it's talking about?"

regards, tom lane

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