Re: systems requiring exit?

[Howard Chu]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Ilya N. Golubev wrote:
> > > As I understand it,
> > > these are pre-1989 systems (or is it pre-1979?)
> > >     
> >
> > Looks like there is quite many systems called that.  Some of them are
> > actually modern ones on top of native ibm system.
> >
> > To Howard Chu: was system exhibiting that broken `return' a native ibm
> > one originating that long ago?  Or more recent one on top of it?
> >   
> The z/OS system I'm talking about is quite recent. I last worked on it 
> in 2003; at the time it was quite new. I don't think IBM would be 
> happy about it being referred to as retrocomputing.
As I recall, they implemented a fairly old draft of POSIX threads (and 
not the same draft version as DCE or AIX) and with a compiler named 
"c89" it's a given that they're not up to C99 specs. But still 
reasonably modern.

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