From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]exit.c: support larger exit code
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:57:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100809115735.0ca4951e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dlq4j7-0tp.ln1@chipmunk.wormnet.eu>
> There is probably a deeper reason as errno.h/errno-base.h all seem to be
> one byte return codes too. I'm starting to ponder if that top three
> bytes are meant to carry some other information?
man 2 wait
and also note that int was 16bits in the times when Unix wait/exit
behaviour was formulated.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 3:14 Zhang, Wei-Jovi (NSN - CN/Hangzhou)
2010-08-09 8:25 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-08-09 10:57 ` Alan Cox [this message]
[not found] <14414B36FFA0F1418CB707361EAA199A0194F7D2@CNBEEXC006.nsn-intra.net>
2010-08-06 12:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-07 10:41 ` Alexander Clouter
2010-08-25 21:49 ` Andrew Morton
2010-08-25 22:23 ` Tony Luck
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