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From: shivers@ai.mit.edu (Olin Shivers)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:17:39 -0500
To: bdc@ai.mit.edu
Cc: glenn@mathcs.emory.edu
In-Reply-To: <9512081913.AA07948@life.ai.mit.edu> (message from Brian D.
Carlstrom on Fri, 8 Dec 95 11:13:20 -0800)
Subject: Re: [0.4.2] run epf error return values buglet?
Reply-To: shivers@ai.mit.edu
Scsh 0.4
> (run (csh -c "exit 1"))
256
> (status:exit-val 256)
1
>
You forgot that the exit status *encodes* several different types of
information. See STATUS:EXIT-VAL and its siblings in the manual. This
would be a fine thing to have posted to the list, as it may be confusing
others as well.
-Olin
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