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Subject: Re: Return codes over 1 byte
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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 18:42:52 -0500
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On Thu, 2015-07-09 at 19:30 -0400, Michael DePaulo wrote:
> mark06 mentioned this on IRC today and then left the channel about 1 hour later:
> 
> <mark06> has anyone ever discussed exit codes above one byte? they are
> valid on modern windows, but cygwin's bash will mess them
> 
> I was curious, so I googled it (I could not find an answer) and then
> tried it out. I can confirm the what he said.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exit.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Exit-Status.html

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Yaakov



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