linux的system函数返回值,关于libc中的system()函数的返回值

先看一个简单的程序：

#include

#include

int main(int argc, const char **argv) {

int ret=0;

ret=system("abc");

//printf("%d",ret);

return ret;

}

abc是一个不存在命令

按我一直以来的理解，system()的返回值即为所执行命令的返回值

打印了来的ret值为32512

可是执行完这个c程序后，执行echo $?你会发现始终是0

明明printf出来是32512为什么，echo $?出来是0

百思不得其解，请教了冷波才最终解决

libc的man中有这么一段

Otherwise, the return value is the exit status of the child process in its lower 8 bits; bits 8-17 of the return value will hold SIGINT or SIGABRT if the child process was aborted by Ctrl-C or Critical Device Error, respectively; otherwise they will be zero(4). If the child couldn’t be run, system will return -1 and set errno to an appropriate value. Note that if `COMMAND.COM’ was used to run the child, it will always return a 0 status, even if the command didn’t run successfully. However, system only calls `COMMAND.COM’ when it needs to run commands internal to it.

原来system函数返回，取高八位作为子进程的status

32512=0x7f00

而bash取的是返回值最大为8位，所以对于对于直接取自system的返回，echo $?其低8位永远是0

正确的程序是：

#include

#include

int main(int argc, const char **argv) {

int ret=0;

ret=system("abc");

return ret>>8;

}