Always exitcode 256 under Cygwin with rsync 2.6.4

[Shachar Shemesh]

Wayne Davison wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:28:02AM +0200, Joost van den Broek wrote:
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>>When you just give an empty rsync command, it should also exit with an
>>exit code (1). But the errorlevel gets set to no. 256 instead.
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>As mentioned in the other message that brought this up, I assume that
>this is something wrong with the cygwin version (perhaps in how it was
>compiled?).  Rsync is exiting with all the right codes under Linux.
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>..wayne..
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It is curious to note that, under Posix, it is impossible to exit with 
return code 256, as the return code is an 8 bit value.

          Shachar

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