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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: exit status <-> portable code
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:01:16 +0100
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#define "exit status" "return code"

 I dispise literal numbers in code - it lessens readabilty, portability and
maybe one or two "-bility's" more.

e.g: When using AmigaDOS headers for console mode program/command
development I have this available:

$ tail +230 /Amiga/NDU31/include/dos/dos.h | head -6
/* These are the return codes used by convention by AmigaDOS commands */
/* See FAILAT and IF for relvance to EXECUTE files                    */
#define RETURN_OK        0  /* No problems, success */
#define RETURN_WARN      5  /* A warning only */
#define RETURN_ERROR    10  /* Something wrong */
#define RETURN_FAIL     20  /* Complete or severe failure*/

Using these I can write programs that look like:

$ cat hickup.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos/dos.h>

int main(...) {
  int success=RETURN_FAIL;

  if (all_OK)
    success=RETURN_OK;

  return success;
}

Q: Is there anything within Cygwin (or Linux, Net*, U*X, whatever... that
can be transferred to Cygwin) that can be used for the same purpose?

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
-- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); --
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