From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shriramana Sharma Subject: Re: Compiling the NIST Time Client Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:40:20 +0530 Message-ID: <200602181040.20766.samjnaa@gmail.com> References: <200602170800.59429.samjnaa@gmail.com> <200602170803.17816.techlist@pathfinder.phys.utk.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200602170803.17816.techlist@pathfinder.phys.utk.edu> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux C Programming List Friday, 17 February 2006 18:33 samaye, Reuben D. Budiardja alekhiit: > exit() takes one argument. exit() is not the same as return. 'man 3 exit' > for details. All I can see is that exit mandatorily takes an argument whereas if return is not given an argument the return status is that of the last command executed in the function body. Further, exit is a function whereas return is a statement, not that that really makes much of a difference (does it?). Is there something else? -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-02-18 W07-6 UTC+0530