[New-bugs-announce] [issue41386] Popen.wait does not account for negative return codes

[Nico]

New submission from Nico <nicofroehlich at icloud.com>:

Following problem occurred.

A C style program can have negative return codes. However this is not correctly implemented in the Windows API. Therefore it is being returned as unsigned long by the API hence it leads to ambiguity while comparing return codes.

For reference regarding this topic see:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/main-function-command-line-args?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=vs-2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-getexitcodeprocess

I suggest a

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components: Windows
messages: 374194
nosy: MrTroble, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Popen.wait does not account for negative return codes
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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