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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 01:58:54 +1100
Subject: Re: Different behavior with multiprocessing
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Tomas Kotal <tomas.kotal@gmail.com> wrote:
> But when I run same script on Linux, what I get is this:
>
> 0
> 32512

Under Unix, the return value from os.system() encodes more than one
piece of information:

http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.system
http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#os.wait

32512 is 127*256, meaning that the shell exited with return code 127
when given an unrecognized command.

ChrisA