From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] confusion about exits()
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:11:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a050914061173f3d23b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0509140851260.16337@cps210.cps.cmich.edu.>
> Under what circumstances does exits("All done.") will
> print the string?
Never. Just like exit(1) in Unix never prints "1".
You can get the exit status from wait (or by echo $status
in the shell). If you want to print something too, use sysfatal.
> For program termination/abort purposes
> it seems to behave like exits(nil).
Except for setting the exit status, yes it does.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-14 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 12:54 ISHWAR RATTAN
2005-09-14 13:11 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-09-16 17:20 ` rog
2005-09-16 17:18 ` Russ Cox
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