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

Zeev, Why don't we follow C/C++/Java/Perl/Python, and almost every other language on this one, and make exit behave like exit should. -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zeev Suraski" <zeev@zend.com> To: "Lars Torben Wilson" <torben@php.net> Cc: <derick@php.net>; "Vlad Krupin" <vlad@php.net>; "Jani Taskinen" <sniper@iki.fi>; "PHP Developers Mailing List" <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Question: Should exit() print out the integer exit-status? > 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 >