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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Status = 2943 from waitpid?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:04:13 +0100
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Shankar <shankarke@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 9, 8:51 am, Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@mssgmbh.com> wrote:
>> Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I'm ptrace'ing a process. After fork/exec and then a wait on the
>> > child, I'm getting a status of 2943. I'm testing for failure, but
>> > waitpid reports non-failure. I've looked in <sys/wait.h>, but the
>> > value 2943 is not defined and does not appear to be a bit mask.
>>
>> > Any ideas on where I should look?
>>
>
> You can just right shift the status by 8 and get the actual status.

No. Provided the lower order byte has a value of 0, you can do that.