return level?

[Bob Parnass, AJ9S]

We are looking at different manual pages.

Here's the relevent portion of the manual page for exit()
on my Red Hat 8 system.  Notice that only 8 bits are important:

NAME
       exit - cause normal program termination

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       void exit(int status);

DESCRIPTION
       The exit() function causes normal program termination and the the value
       of status & 0377 is returned to the parent (see  wait(2)).   All  func-
       tions  registered with atexit() and on_exit() are called in the reverse
       order of their registration, and  all  open  streams  are  flushed  and
       closed.  Files created by tmpfile() are removed.

       The C standard specifies two defines EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE that
       may be passed to exit() to indicate successful or unsuccessful termina-
       tion, respectively.

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 08:46 am, Greg Louis wrote:
> 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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