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author | Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> |
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date | Sun, 09 May 2004 12:38:56 +0000 |
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3 The exit value of a program returning to the shell on unixoid systems is | |
4 typically 0 for success, and non-0 (such as 1) for failure. For vms it is | |
5 odd (1,3,5...) for success, even (0,2,4...) for failure. | |
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7 This holds from the point of view of the "shell" (in quotes because vms has a | |
8 different dispatch model that is not explained further here). | |
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10 From the point of view of the program, nowadays stdlib.h on both type of | |
11 systems provides macros `EXIT_SUCCESS' and `EXIT_FAILURE' that should DTRT. | |
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13 NB: The numerical values of these macros DO NOT need to fulfill the the exit | |
14 value requirements outlined in the first paragraph! That is the job of the | |
15 `exit' function. Thus, this kind of construct shows misunderstanding: | |
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17 #ifdef VMS | |
18 exit (1); | |
19 #else | |
20 exit (0); | |
21 #endif | |
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23 Values aside from EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE are tricky. |