On Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 09:32:07 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>Mary Gardiner wrote:
>
>> EXIT STATUS
>>        0 (true)  System is on mains power
>>        1 (false) System is not on mains power
>>        255 (false)    Power status could not be determined
>
><boggle>
>In what universe is 0 true and 1 false?????
></boogle>

Come on Eric, you know the Unix deal. Exit code 0 is always success
with 1->255 being error codes. The doc could probably be better written
as:

>>        0 (success)  System is on mains power
>>        1 (error) System is not on mains power
>>        255 (error)    Power status could not be determined

Of course libc is full of this stuff, strcmp() returns 0 (false) if the
strings match.

Benno
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