return level?

[Greg Louis]

On 20030218 (Tue) at 0836:15 -0600, Bob Parnass, AJ9S wrote:
> In UNIX-type sysetms, exit codes represented by 8 bits, right?

No: this is from manpage exit(3).

NAME
       exit - cause normal program termination

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       void exit(int status);

DESCRIPTION
       The  exit() function causes normal program termination and the
       value of status is returned  to  the  parent.

CONFORMING TO
       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899 (`ANSI C'')

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