Always exitcode 256 under Cygwin with rsync 2.6.4

[Benjamin Watkins]

Paul Haas wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Wayne Davison wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:28:02AM +0200, Joost van den Broek wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> If I understand the problem, it looks like it is fixed in Cygwin 
> 1.5.14-1, which was released sometime on Saturday.
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00073.html
>
> The Cygwin 1.5.14-1 announcement includes this change:
>
>  - cgf: Right shift exit code by eight when process is not started in a
>    cygwin environment.
>
> Which sounds like the fix to your problem, although it is hard to 
> tell, since you didn't say what Cygwin version you were running.
> -- 
> Paul Haas
> paulh at hamjudo.com

I can confirm that the binary I compiled using this version does give 
the proper exit codes.  It appears this was the root of the exit code 
problem.

-Ben : )