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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this?
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Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2003 02:38:52 +0200
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> it's ported from and maintained as a posix program; it calls exit.
> regex wasn't kept compatible, though, so i suppose exit could
> go too, but it seems not worth the trouble.

i 'call bullshit on dat'.

this plan 9 and we have exits(2).

i'll fix it if someone will apply it to the source tree.