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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: linux prg <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: exit(42)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:54:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e5904092706547163c3fd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040927123955.GB7486@luna.mooo.com>

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:39:55 +0200, Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:46:03PM +0530, Pankaj wrote:
> > hi,
> > I guess the value is stored in a global var called "errno".

> If this is about the return value, it is not stored in errno.

Indeed. It's stored in exit_code within the process task_struct, along
with other useful data about the terminated process and is the reason
that process descriptors remain around.

When you call wait4 or one of the wait functions, then this gets cleaned up.

Cheers,

Jon.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-27 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-24 11:57 exit(42) Ankit Jain
2004-09-24 12:13 ` exit(42) Alphex Kaanoken
2004-09-24 12:25 ` exit(42) Ron Michael Khu
2004-09-27  9:16   ` exit(42) Pankaj
2004-09-27 12:39     ` exit(42) Micha Feigin
2004-09-27 13:54       ` Jon Masters [this message]
2004-09-24 12:29 ` exit(42) Luciano Moreira - igLnx
2004-09-24 16:33 ` exit(42) Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-09-25  1:13 ` exit(42) Micha Feigin
2004-09-25 10:57   ` exit(42) rinku rathore

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