boostorg/build — pull request #44 by jurko-gospodnetic (2014-10-19 19:52:53+00:00)
Title: Return valid exit code from Windows batch scripts.

Technique used for setting Windows batch script exit codes in Boost.Build worked
correctly when the script is called from a Windows shell process and then checked
from inside that process. However, when run from a temporary shell process that
needs to terminate after running the script, such a process would always return
exit code 0.

This prevented anyone automating those scripts from detecting their success/
failure status by using their exit code without adding an additional batch script
layer.

For example, consider the following two script files:

ret666.cmd: `exit /b 666`
wrapper.cmd: `call ret666.cmd`

They both 'should return the value 666' and when run directly from a `cmd.exe`
console indeed both do (they set the shell process's `ERRORLEVEL` environment
variable to 666). However, when run using `cmd /c