[OT] Re: return level?

[Greg Louis]

On 20030218 (Tue) at 0859:48 -0600, Bob Parnass, AJ9S wrote:
> We are looking at different manual pages.

And yours is more up to date.  A better source still is the current
glibc documentation:

Exit Status
-----------

   When a program exits, it can return to the parent process a small
amount of information about the cause of termination, using the "exit
status".  This is a value between 0 and 255 that the exiting process
passes as an argument to `exit'.

So you're right: in this context, only the low 8 bits matter.

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