Re: [Vala] Interpreting exit status

[rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>]

I presume that I have to use GLib.Subprocess instead of GLib.Process... Ok.


Thanks!

El 5/5/19 a las 20:08, Al Thomas via vala-list escribió:
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>      > On Sunday, 5 May 2019, 15:36:38 BST, rastersoft <raster rastersoft com> wrote: > I have a little problem: I'm launching a process using
> > GLib.Process.spawn_async, and use g_child_add_watch() to receive the
> > exit status value....But waitpid documentation is not
> > very clear... Can I assume that the value set by the "exit()" call in
> > the spawned program is always stored in the upper 8 bits?
> I can give some insight based on my own experience, which boils down to: - use GLib SubProcess - use the Open 
> Group documentation for anything that is unclear with POSIX (Unix)
> https://valadoc.org/gio-2.0/GLib.Subprocess.get_exit_status.html states 'This is equivalent to the system 
> WEXITSTATUS macro' and http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/wait.htmlstates 
> 'WEXITSTATUS(stat_val) If the value of WIFEXITED(stat_val) is non-zero, this macro evaluates to the low-order 
> 8 bits of the status argumentthat the childprocess passed to _exit() or exit(), or the value the child 
> process returned from main()'
> I hope that helps.
>
> Al
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