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Old 11-20-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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There is NO actual reason associated with numbers, there are suggestions for program exit status values. 0 == success anything else is an error condition.

Read this page:
sysexits

You can also read about discussions attempting to standardize this by googling for program exit status in bash, for example.