Subject: Re: bug#6430: Emacs WINDOWS truncates exit status of processes to 8 bits

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 05:35:38 +0300

> From: Óscar Fuentes <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:32:04 +0200
> 
> Personally I don't care, because I live on a world of cross-platform
> software, but it was surprising to learn about this limitation of
> process handling on Windows, considering how much work was invested on
> making Emacs a true Windows citizen.

We only solve real-life problems in Emacs, not academical ones.  Life
is too hard for anything else.