Re: obtaining process exit code from popen()

["John D. Blair" <jdb@...>]

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 22:37 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:

> >> popen() is from POSIX, not ISO C.  pclose() does return the exit
> >> status of the child process.
> >
> > That's not true about pclose(), at least not on Linux:
> >
> >>From the Linux popen() man page, which also describes pclose():
> >
> >        The pclose() function waits for the associated process to
> > terminate and returns the exit status of the command as returned by
> > wait4(2).
> 
> Which part is not true?  I'm confused.
> 
> (Feel free to respond to the mailing list.)

Sorry... I misread your statement... I thought you wrote the opposite of
what you actually did.  I need to be more careful before I email.

best,
John.