[OT] Re: return level?

[Greg Louis]

On 20030218 (Tue) at 0946:16 -0500, 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).

That documented that C returns an int; in fact, in Linux 2.4, do_exit()
uses a long for the return code.

The $? value in the shell does get just 8 bits, though.

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