Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:06:33 -0500
Message-Id:	<199902141806.NAA27084@envy.delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<3.0.6.32.19990214105438.008d1850@pop.netaddress.com> (message
	from Paul Derbyshire on Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:54:38 -0500)
Subject:	Re: Program Exit Code 255
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> 255 -- Caught a fatal signal, such as SIGSEGV.

Actually, there's a lot of places in both libc and applications that
just do "exit(-1)", which results in a 255 being returned.  I don't
think you can count on 255 meaning only fatal signal exits.

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