Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(-1)
Keywords: exit, zero
Message-ID: <7097@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Jan 88 14:01:52 GMT
References: <502@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <6935@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1179@wjvax.UUCP> <6983@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7208@ki4pv.uucp> <23160@cca.CCA.COM> <1843@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1843@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In article <23160@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>>In this case, 0 is a magic number -- it is a coded value ...
>But zero is not a magic number, ...

What g-rh was trying to say was that the SUCCESSFUL TERMINATION STATUS
INDICATOR (which traditionally has been 0 on UNIX systems) is a "magic
number", and he's right.