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

Zeev Suraski writes: > Even if you repeat it may times, it still wouldn't be a bug. When I wrote > exit() I intended exit() to print out its argument, regardless of its > type. It's been behaving like this since PHP 3.0.0 alpha 1, because it was > supposed to behave like that. > The doc team got it wrong, and misdocumented it. Only this May. Before that, the docs were correct. Logically, though, the fact that a member of the doc team replaced the correct docs with an erroneous description doesn't imply that the function behaved correctly to start with. > Scripts who will break are scripts that terminate after printing out an > error code. I have at least one such script, and I'm pretty sure that more > exist, especially in automated environments. > > Zeev > > At 15:08 19/12/2001, Jani Taskinen wrote: > > >Fixing a bug by adding new function that behaves correctly is really > >not the way to go. Could you please give me nice example what kind > >of scripts break if the integer is not printed out? > > > >--Jani > > > > > > > >On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > >exit_with_status(), silent_exit(), quiet_exit(), etc. etc. Something > > >should fit :) > > > > > > > > >At 14:49 19/12/2001, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > > >>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 > > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.inflatableeye.com +1.604.709.0506