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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(-1)
Message-ID: <1899@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 88 14:21:30 GMT
References: <502@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <6935@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1179@wjvax.UUCP> <1225@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <10237@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <10237@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Unix, by virtue of being the first system to implement the language,
>is privileged: it gets to take the argument to exit() and pass it
>back to the calling program.  Other systems might have to convert
>the argument to 0 => success, anything else => unspecified failure.

A Daniel come to judgement!
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi