Re: incorrect return code on vms...

[Derek R. Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Noel L Yap writes:
> >
> > Hmmm.  How does diff-utils deal with this situation?
>
> I don't think diff-utils is interested in running on non-Unix/Posix
> systems.  CVS is (although it doesn't quite succeed just yet).

Still, where's the harm in returning only EXIT_SUCCESS & EXIT_FAILURE on
systems that require that and a little more information on systems which
support it?  We're talking about a few lines in configure.in, maybe one
in acconfig.h, a line in system.h, and a single line in main.  I'll do
the work, or what Donald hasn't done already.

Derek

P.S.  run.c already seems to non-portably _exit() with bash's 127 when
it can't exec a program.

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