Re: Question: Should exit() print out the integer exit-status?

At 14:04 19/12/2001, derick@php.net wrote:

Two ways to fix it then, either update the manual, or fix exit(). I go for the last one then. Ppl who relied on the undocumented feature then, did simply the wrong thing.

Only the documentation was wrong to begin with! A documentation bug should not become a feature, especially when it never worked that way, so anybody who actually used this function saw that it was behaving differently. Zeev