Different behavior with multiprocessing

[Tomas Kotal]

> Under Unix, the return value from os.system() encodes more than one
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> http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.system
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> http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.wait
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> 32512 is 127*256, meaning that the shell exited with return code 127
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> when given an unrecognized command.
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> ChrisA

Well the point is not the difference between return values of os.system under Windows and Linux.

The point is that I set the exist code of child process with os._exit() which works fine on Windows but on Linux the process.exitcode returns always 0.

What is very strange is, that if I set return code to some other value, like:

...
os._exit( len(cmd) )
...

Then I got exit codes 3 and 2 under Linux, which is correct. But when I do something like this:

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ret = os.system(cmd)
print ret # this print real value, like 32512
os._exit(ret) # exitcode of this child process will be 0 on Linux
...

It doesn't work, which seems very strange to me.