Re: GAWK 3.1.0 Windows NT versus Unix

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Jim Sievers <address@hidden> wrote:
> Would like some clarification on a problem that I discovered using GAWK on
> both Unix and Windows NT

But: what port of GAWK is that? Is it the one from Cygwin, or the
DJGPP version, or yet another one?

> Windows NT version does not appear to be returning status codes from the
> SYSTEM() command properly

That's often because one of the usual horrible M$ stupidities: at
least their DOS shell, command.com, stubbornly insists on always
returning a zero status to the caller, no matter what the status of
the last command was.  And since the C library function system() is
defined to work through the shell, this means that it would be
impossible for the return value of system() ever to be false, on DOS.
Wherein "DOS" does include the DJGPP version of GAWK, even if you run
that on NT.

> A standard ANSI C program appears to work just fine and it calls the
> same GNU test utility

Compiled by what compiler, for what target platform?
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