[LTP] [ ltp-Bugs-1847981 ] 559 tests incorrectly exit with negative number

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Bugs item #1847981, was opened at 2007-12-10 11:30
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Category: Testcases
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: George Kraft IV (gk4)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 559 tests incorrectly exit with negative number

Initial Comment:
599 LTP tests found to incorrectly exit with a negative number.  All C code should exit with 0 (success), 1 (failure), or some positive integer (undefined); however, a negative number should never be used because it gets masked and therefore is unpredictable.

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




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Comment By: Mike Frysinger (vapier)
Date: 2007-12-12 11:43

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actually, it's the exact opposite of unpredictable ... the mask is
specifically known, so as long as the negative number is small, the value
returned to the shell will always be usable as non-zero

(status & 0377)

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Comment By: Subrata (subrata_modak)
Date: 2007-12-12 05:53

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Will look in to this. Thanks.

--Subrata

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