Re: systems requiring exit?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > > Hmm, mainframes? I want to say VMS also uses 'return 1' for success
> > > (or maybe it even needs exit; I'm not the one that has to deal with
> > > our VMS systems).
>
> As I understand it, on VMS, exit(N) is equivalent to main returning N;
> it's just that N==1 also means success.  So this is an independent
> issue from whether to use exit or return.

Right. Paul seemed to be describing systems where 'return 1' meant 
success and 'return 0' meant failure as "broken". Personally, I tend to 
agree :-), but I wanted to make sure we don't stop paying attention to 
the issue because we think no one uses such systems any more.

If we are not going there, my comment may be safely ignored. :-)

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Matthew
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