[fpc-pascal] TProcess execution

[Jonas Maebe]

On 9 feb 2006, at 07:48, Micha Nelissen wrote:

>>> How can I know whether a TProcess failed when trying to execute it ?
>>> Running will be false, but I want to distinguish between the file  
>>> not
>>> there / no execution permission / etc. and it started running but  
>>> was done
>>> quickly.
>> It should raise an exception if execution fails ?
>
> That I should have noticed :-). In unix, the return result of the  
> 'fpexecve' call is not checked, at least. If it returns, it does  
> 'halt(127)', so should I check the ExitStatus being 127 ?

Yes. If you look at things like "man popen" under Linux (or pretty  
much any *nix), you'll also see comments like this:

        Failure to execute the shell is  indistinguishable  from   
the  shell’s
        failure  to execute command, or an immediate exit of the  
command.  The
        only hint is an exit status of 127.

The reason is that because of the fork/vfork construct these OS'es  
use, there is no way to report an error to the parent process except  
by exit codes.


Jonas