Re: [uml-devel] Feature Request: Setting exit code

[Matt Z. <md...@de...>]

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Roger Binns wrote:

> > If you allow UML's own exit code to be set by another program running
> > under UML, how will it be possible to distinguish between a UML failure
> > and a failure on the part of that program?
> 
> Define exit code 126 to belong to UML itself having issues, and all others
> open to the programs within to set.  UML currently always appears to exit
> with code 0 so this won't break backwards compatibility or anything
> similar.

If this feature were implemented, I would mostly be interested in using it
for propagating the exit status of a program running under UML.  If a
certain exit code is reserved this way, then I would have to ensure that the
program could never return that exit code, or translate it to something else
(hopefully unused).

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 - mdz