exit codes (was: Identifier length?)
Larry Jones
scjones at sdrc.UUCP
Thu Mar 23 08:17:59 AEST 1989
In article <6268 at bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> Existing programs almost never use anything other than a return code of
> 0, 1, or 2. It almost doesn't matter what the standard says about the
> number of bits used. In fact the standard could simply have said:
> "...if the value of the exit code is not 0, 1, or 2, it is interpreted
> in an implementation-dependent manner". That would not affect more
> than about 0.2% of existing C programs. The current standard affects
> all of them.
No, Rahul, it doesn't affect all of them. Those of us who have
been writing REALLY portable code have been using exit(SUCCESS)
and exit(FAILURE) all along.
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