subprocess returncode is masked

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On Dec 28, 11:12 am, Emmanuel <emmanuel.gau... at pragmadev.com> wrote:
> I'm using Python 2.6 and the new subprocess module to get the exit value
> of an external executable. It appears the return value given by wait()
> or poll() operations is masked under Unix: I only get the lower 8 bits.
> So an exit value of 0x0402 in the C program will be seen as 0x02 in
> Python. And this does not happen on Windows...
> Any idea why that is ?
> Emmanuel