BeOS updates.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13895

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/beos/beos.c b/beos/beos.c
index d5f7fbab48..7e799caf54 100644
--- a/beos/beos.c
+++ b/beos/beos.c
@@ -5,14 +5,16 @@
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 
 /* In BeOS 5.0 the waitpid() seems to misbehave in that the status
- * is _not_ shifted left by eight (multiplied by 256), as it is in
- * POSIX/UNIX.  To undo the surpise effect to the rest of Perl we
- * need this wrapper.  (The rest of BeOS might be surprised because
- * of this, though.) */
+ * has the upper and lower bytes swapped compared with the usual
+ * POSIX/UNIX implementations.  To undo the surpise effect to the
+ * rest of Perl we need this wrapper.  (The rest of BeOS might be
+ * surprised because of this, though.) */
 
 pid_t beos_waitpid(pid_t process_id, int *status_location, int options) {
     pid_t got = waitpid(process_id, status_location, options);
     if (status_location)
-      *status_location <<= 8; /* What about the POSIX low bits? */
+      *status_location =
+	(*status_location & 0x00FF) << 8 |
+	(*status_location & 0xFF00) >> 8;
     return got;
 }