Batch goto loses errorlevel

Question

Consider the following bat, test.bat (PC01 is off):

mkdir \\\\PC01\\\\c$\\Test || goto :eof

If I run that bat from a command shell:

Answer 1

To build a solution for batch files to set the return code while using goto :eof you can change your script a bit.

mkdir \\\failure || goto :EXIT
echo Only on Success
exit /b

:exit
(call)

Now you can use

test.bat || echo Failed

The only drawback here is the loss of the errorlevel.
In this case the return code is set to false but the errorlevel is always set to 1, by the invalid (call)
Currently I can't found any possible way to set both, the errorlevel and the return code to user defined values