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Re: is this a bug?
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: is this a bug? |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:06:38 -0500 |
> > It's not a bug. the exit status of a command, the "return" of your
> > function, is limited to the numbers 0-255.
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> It's 0-128, actually.
Whoops, no, you're right. You just can't count on exit statuses
greater than 127 not conflicting with processes exiting due to a
signal, so practice is to limit exit statuses to 0-127.
Chet
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