On 18.12.14 03:15, Kenneth Lorber wrote: > The situation is actually slightly more complex than I stated previously. > From the docs: > The exit value of this program is negative on error, > But there’s no such thing as a negative error code under Unix, so (at best) > that will be exit(255). > > No patch, because this is getting painfully close to needing someone with a > global view of the code to fix. > > Thanks, > Keni > My spontanous question: Would it be save to clamp at 127 ?
>> + if (status > 127) >> + status = 127; /* prevent exit() from truncating to 0 or >> becoming negative */ (And the rest looked good enough to become a patch, or at least to start a wider discussion) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
