diff --git a/src/support/filetools.cpp b/src/support/filetools.cpp
index 310e621e17..ff9ea8110a 100644
--- a/src/support/filetools.cpp
+++ b/src/support/filetools.cpp
@@ -1093,10 +1093,14 @@ cmd_ret const runCommand(string const & cmd)
 
 #if defined (_WIN32)
 	WaitForSingleObject(process.hProcess, INFINITE);
+	DWORD pret;
+	if (!GetExitCodeProcess(process.hProcess, &pret))
+		pret = -1;
 	if (!infile.empty())
 		CloseHandle(startup.hStdInput);
 	CloseHandle(process.hProcess);
-	int const pret = fclose(inf);
+	if (fclose(inf) != 0)
+		pret = -1;
 #elif defined (HAVE_PCLOSE)
 	int const pret = pclose(inf);
 #elif defined (HAVE__PCLOSE)
diff --git a/status.22x b/status.22x
index 5238983a9a..412b7c6cc2 100644
--- a/status.22x
+++ b/status.22x
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ What's new
 
 - Avoid crashing in release mode if we stumble across an unrealized font.
 
+- Correctly return exit code from spawned processes on Windows (bug 10327).
+
 - Fix display of citations with two authors.
 
 - Fix display of multi-author citations when the GUI language is not English.