Re: [PATCH] ftracetest: Don't use non-POSIX exit -1

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu,  5 Mar 2015 13:04:02 +1100
Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> POSIX says that exit takes an unsigned integer between 0 and 255.
> 
> Convert exit -1 to exit 255.
> 

Why 255? Why not just exit 1?

Actually, don't we have explicit numbers for exit status?

/me not looking at the code right now to figure that out.

-- Steve
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