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

Zeev Suraski writes: > 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 Well, from another point of view, both were wrong. :) The manual documented behaviour which didn't exist, so it was wrong. In another sense, the code behaved in a fashion which had a very high WTF factor, so it couild be called 'wrong' too. An easy way to set and check the exit status of a PHP script would make a lot of life a hell of a lot easier. -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.inflatableeye.com +1.604.709.0506