Re: [PATCH]exit.c: support larger exit code

[Tony Luck]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are back-compatibility issues.

Also standards conformance issues. Posix says this about exit():

"The value of status may be 0, EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE, [CX]   or
any other value, though only the least significant 8 bits (that is,
status & 0377) shall be available to a waiting parent process."

Full reference here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/exit.html

-Tony
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