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Path: rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop
From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: EXIT_SUCCES != EXIT_FAILURE?
Date: 26 Mar 96 02:01:51 GMT
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Message-ID: <danpop.827805711@rscernix>
References: <tompa.827763954@news>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch
Keywords: EXIT_SUCCESS EXIT_FAILURE guarantee
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In <tompa.827763954@news> tompa@ida.liu.se (Thomas Padron-McCarthy) writes:
>So I wonder: Does the standard guarantee that EXIT_SUCCESS and
>EXIT_FAILURE are different?
No. If the host environment doesn't support the concept of termination
status, both macros can legally evaluate to the same value.
Dan
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Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland