My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

Alex Shturm shturm@ptc.com
Wed May 16 19:32:00 GMT 2007


Wow.
Is it a documented behavior?
What is the reason for cygwin to believe that the program needs to be 
re-run?

I'm not sure how I can control the exit value if the actual exit is 
performed by exception handler...

Thanks,
Alex

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Actually, nevermind.  I know what the problem is.  Cygwin is
> interpreting the exit value from your program as being indicative of a
> hard failure and trying to rerun it as a result.  If you explicitly exit
> with a value less than 65535 it should work better.
>
> cgf
>
>   

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