Re: incorrect return code on vms...

[Noel L Yap]

Hmmm.  How does diff-utils deal with this situation?

Noel




address@hidden on 2000.12.01 12:07:19

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Subject:  Re: incorrect return code on vms...




Donald Sharp writes:
>
> You missunderstand what I did.  This has nothing to do
> with the c compiler.  It has everything to do with what
> cvs returned as a exit code.  The vms system( according to
> the ChangeLog ) interprets return codes from programs as follows:
> 0 - Program failed
> 1 - Program Succeeded.

That is ancient history and does not conform to the ANSI/ISO C standard
which requires that 0 be interpreted as a successful exit status.  The
VMS C run-time library was fixed long ago to do so, so no changes are
necessary.  According to ANSI/ISO C, the only portable exit statuses are
0 or EXIT_SUCCESS (which are interpreted as success), and EXIT_FAILURE
(which is interpreted as failure).  Trying to return different flavors
of success or failure, particularly using hard-coded values like 1 and
2, is non-portable and doomed to failure.

-Larry Jones

Don't you hate it when your boogers freeze? -- Calvin

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