From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754224AbbCEC0L (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:26:11 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.232]:6876 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753270AbbCEC0J (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:26:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 21:26:59 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Michael Ellerman Cc: shuahkh@osg.samsung.com, , davej@codemonkey.org.uk, namhyung@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftracetest: Don't use non-POSIX exit -1 Message-ID: <20150304212659.3e1d1414@grimm.local.home> In-Reply-To: <1425521042-30251-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> References: <1425521042-30251-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.118:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 13:04:02 +1100 Michael Ellerman wrote: > POSIX says that exit takes an unsigned integer between 0 and 255. > > Convert exit -1 to exit 255. > Why 255? Why not just exit 1? Actually, don't we have explicit numbers for exit status? /me not looking at the code right now to figure that out. -- Steve