titanandrews <titanandrews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:774c45d4-97a5-43a9-
ae33-dd51fe9bcc7a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi All,
>
> Is there any way to catch the exit code from someone calling
> exit(status) and check the value before the program terminates?
>
> Just for an idea, the code I'm thinking of is something like this:
>
> void exithandler()
> {
> DWORD exitCode = 0;
> ::GetExitCodeProcess(GetCurrentProcess(),&exitCode);
> std::cout << exitCode << std::endl;
> // prints 259, NOT 55
> }
>
>
> int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
> {
> atexit(exithandler);
> exit(55);
> return 0;
> }
>
> This is for Windows, but I am looking for a solution for UNIX/Linux.
> BTW... this solution does NOT work because the process has not yet
> terminated when my exit handler is called, thus resulting in exitCode
> of 259 instead of 55. 259 on Windows means the process is still
> active.
>
> Does anyone know if this can be done?
> Use case: Imagine you have a library and you want to check if someone
> is calling exit with a particular code.
>
atexit() can be used to register a function which will be called as part
of
the exit() processing (but not the abort() processing), I don't believe
there is a standard way to get the status set by exit() though.
joe
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