Hello Reviewers, hello Windows NT native experts! I wouldn't dare to send this patch to xemacs-patches yet. However, I have a first working[1] implementation for (call-process ...) to return the correct exit status of the child process called. It is a simple upgrade of the wait_for_termination(int pid) function in src/sysdep.c conditionalized on WINDOWSNT. Please test it, rip it apart and rebuild it, and send me suggestions (copying xemacs-beta and/or xemacs-nt since my mail server is having problems). A Weak Spot: When OpenProcess() returns an invalid process handle I fake a signal termination signal. synch_process_death = signal_name (SIGTERM); This is nothing than a wild guess, but better than setting synch_process_retcode = status; I have tested this using external cygnus executables "sleep" and "grep" as follows. Patch against latest CVS source of 21.2-b19 is at end. Thanks in advance for any help! Best regards, Adrian ;;; Sleeping for 3 seconds, then returns 0. (apply 'call-process "sleep" nil nil nil (list "3")) 0 ;;; Trying to sleep for 30 seconds, but killed via Windows NT Task ;;; Manager. (apply 'call-process "sleep" nil nil nil (list "30")) "software termination signal from kill" ;;; Looking for drivers in sysem file succeeds, returning 0. (apply 'call-process "grep" nil nil nil (list "drivers" "c:\\winnt\\system.ini")) 0 ;;; Looking for passangers in sysem file fails, returning 1. (apply 'call-process "grep" nil nil nil (list "passangers" "c:\\winnt\\system.ini")) 1 ;;; Looking for drivers in invalid file fails, returning 2. (apply 'call-process "grep" nil nil nil (list "drivers" "c:\winnt\system.ini")) 2 cvs server: Diffing src Index: src/sysdep.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/src/sysdep.c,v retrieving revision 1.32.2.7 diff -u -r1.32.2.7 sysdep.c --- sysdep.c 1999/07/05 05:56:44 1.32.2.7 +++ sysdep.c 1999/10/11 14:13:46 ＠＠ -345,6 +345,36 ＠＠ Since implementations may add their own error indicators on top, we ignore it by default. */ +#elif defined (WINDOWSNT) + int ret = 0, status = 0; + HANDLE hProcess = OpenProcess(PROCESS_QUERY_INFORMATION, 0, pid); + if (hProcess == NULL) { + /* + * If the process is gone, it has probably been terminated. APA + */ + synch_process_alive = 0; + synch_process_death = signal_name (SIGTERM); + } else { + do { + QUIT; + ret = GetExitCodeProcess(hProcess, &status); + } while (status == STILL_ACTIVE); + if (ret) { + synch_process_alive = 0; + synch_process_retcode = status; + } + else { + /* + * GetExitCodeProcess() didn't return a valid exit status, + * nothing to do. APA + */ + stderr_out ("wait_for_termination.GetExitCodeProcess status %d return %d for pid %d\n", status, GetLastError (), pid); + } + if (!CloseHandle(hProcess)) { + stderr_out ("wait_for_termination.CloseHandle return %d for pid %d\n", + GetLastError (), pid); + } + } #elif defined (EMACS_BLOCK_SIGNAL) && !defined (BROKEN_WAIT_FOR_SIGNAL) && defined (SIGCHLD) while (1) { cvs server: Diffing src/m cvs server: Diffing src/s Footnotes: [1] driven by my need for ediff-directories to work in Windows NT native XEmacs. It does now.