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From: sns@genghis.UUCP (Sam Southard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(-1), 0 is sometimes magic
Message-ID: <353@genghis.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 17:58:16 GMT
References: <502@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <6935@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1179@wjvax.UUCP> <1234@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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Keywords: exit, zero, flaming

In article <1234@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.edu (M. Warner Losh) writes:
> you could have the dcl shell (or more correctly (from a VMS point of view :-),
> command interpreter [sic on spelling]) that treats an exit status of
> on ODD number as success, and an EVEN (for error, I quess) number as

Yet another reason not to use VMS - on VMS success is odd.
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Sam Southard, Jr.
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