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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: exit codes (was: Identifier length?)
Message-ID: <12111@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 21 Mar 89 17:26:51 GMT
References: <627@maxim.ERBE.SE> <1989Mar16.171213.21210@utzoo.uucp> <6161@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1989Mar17.175939.1226@utzoo.uucp> <6212@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <6212@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Another [political issue] was refusal to standardize the common practice of
>0=normal, nonzero=error in exit(n),

This is not common practice.  Even in Unix, the current situation is that
(n%256==0) denotes normal exit, (n%256!=0) flags an error.  Should Unix change
to meet the proposed specification (so that exit(256) will flag an error), or
do you want it reworded in such a way that Unix already conforms?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint