exit() / die()

Guys, Changing these is quite out of the question - they've been a core part of the language since 1997 (at least), and have lots of lines of code that rely on them. Moreover, there's no clear-cut reason to change it, especially considering it only makes sense when used in command-line mode, whereas the current behavior is useful in all SAPIs (in order to introduce such a compatibility-breaking change, we need a *good* reason). My suggestion is: (a) Tracing when exit() started changing exit status. If it was recent enough, revert. (b) In the CGI SAPI, introduce a shell_exit() or terminate() (possibly find a better name), that will exit and set the specified error level. Zeev