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Top Forums Programming Function main returning int? Post 302727739 by jim mcnamara on Tuesday 6th of November 2012 08:04:01 PM
Old 11-06-2012
@corona -

Yes. I think I mentioned the least signficant 8 bits.

I might as well inject the whole sysexits thing here, too:

Man Page for sysexits (freebsd Section 3) - The UNIX and Linux Forums

The idea here is to use predefined exit values for various error conditions.
When you see a unix command return an error code like 64, chances are the exit codes conform to the sysexits model. sysexits is a model, or a suggestion. But it does allow the program to convey intelligence when an error occurs.

For example the diff command (by POSIX standards) has it's own little protocol. It does not use sysexits because in part the information ( or meaning ) associated with two return codes of the three are not errors.
Code:
return value    meaning
0                  differences found
1                  no differences found
2                  some other error occurred

This parallels in part alister's comment about the "range" of return values.

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 11-06-2012 at 09:10 PM..
 

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INTRO(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  INTRO(1)

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intro -- introduction to general commands (tools and utilities) DESCRIPTION
Section one of the manual contains most of the commands which comprise the BSD user environment. Some of the commands included in section one are text editors, command shell interpreters, searching and sorting tools, file manipulation commands, system status commands, remote file copy commands, mail commands, compilers and compiler tools, formatted output tools, and line printer commands. All commands set a status value upon exit which may be tested to see if the command completed normally. Traditionally, the value 0 signifies successful completion of the command, while a value >0 indicates an error. Some commands attempt to describe the nature of the failure by using exit codes as defined in sysexits(3), while others simply set the status to an arbitrary value >0 (typically 1). SEE ALSO
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