From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: writing of an exit value to screen or file
Date: 09 Mar 2000 10:37:57 -0800
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"Martin Czamai" <M DOT Czamai AT peak-system DOT com> writes:

> Hello out there!
> 
> Is it possible to display the exit value of a program on the screen BEFORE
> it terminates or is it just possible to evaluate the value at the DOS
> prompt?
> Currently I've registered an exit-handler by using atexit(..) and I want to
> display the value in this handler.
> Hoping for any reply thanks in advance

I can't think of a good way without wrapping exit.  Make a function
that sets a global variable to the exit code, and then calls exit, and
call it instead of exit.  (There are various clever ways to do this
without changing the source much, but a global find/replace is
probably simplest.)

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Nate Eldredge
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