Here’s a question that came from a customer. By now, you should already have the necessary psychic powers to answer it.
Our program calls
ExitProcess(1)to indicate that it exited unsuccessfully. The process that launched our program waits for the program to exit and then callsGetExitCodeProcessto retrieve the exit code. The function succeeds, but the exit code is zero! How can this be?
Hint: Read about how processes terminate on Windows XP.
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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