[Python-Dev] os.spawnv problem

[Fredrik Lundh]

according to the MSDN docs and my local header
files, spawnv and friends return an integer, which
contains the process's exit code.

according to posixmodule.c (trent?), they return an
intptr_t.

unfortunately, this little change causes some inter-
resting problems; spawnv tells me that my program
returns the following exit code:

    2167387144924954624

or, in another base:

     0x1E141B2000000000L

unless anyone can explain what those upper bit mean,
and why they are relevant, I suggest casting the return
code down to an int.

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