Re: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH] mconsole fixes

[Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:46:52PM +1030, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:46:36PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
 
> > I applied most of the rest of that.  I got rid of the exits from main, since
> > I like returns better and I tidied up some other stuff.
> 
> Minor portability potential. See
> http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q11.16.html. (I looked it up once long
> ago and supposedly _exit is more likely to work on more systems than
> exit.)

Actually on second thoughts that is not relevant (applies to functions
other than main.)

However there is only one way that the standard guarantees we can
indicate a status to the OS and that is exit(EXIT_FAILURE) or
EXIT_SUCCESS. return(whatever) works on the sane OSs that we're used to,
but the standard is there for a reason. So that should be used instead.

-- 
Dan Shearer
dan@shearer.org


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