return level?

[Bob Parnass, AJ9S]

In UNIX-type sysetms, exit codes represented by 8 bits, right?

When someone observes that a program exits with a code of 256, I suspect
they are testing the exit code incorrectly.  Maybe there's a byte ordering
problem.

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 08:16 am, David Relson wrote:

> Matej,
>
> When bogofilter detects spam, its return code is 0.  For nonspam, it
> returns 1.  In case of abnormal exit, it returns 2.  It does not uses
> values like 256 and has never done that.  How are you running it?  How are
> you getting the value of 256?

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