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Message-Id: | <200001141504.JAA08686@darwin.sfbr.org> |
Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:04:33 -0600 (CST) |
From: | Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org> |
Subject: | Re: `void main' in Gnu packages---?! |
To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Cc: | alain AT qnx DOT com |
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-: I'm certainly curious to know in which program/package, since most of the -: GNU *utils are design to be use with Unix shells so the return -: value of main is important when doing shell scripts. One place I found it was in time.c of the GNU time-1.7.tar.gz archive. This compiled right out of the box (well, almost), but when I ran the executable I got a brutal reminder that DOS can't fork(). Duh. [:-/
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