SPUG: OT: Re: PERL technical interview

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:30:14PM -0600, Jeff Almeida wrote:
> *d'oh!*  now you know why i don't code all that much in c  
> *embarrassed grin*
> 
> leave it to me to confuse shell-true with actual-true on a monday  
> morning...
> 
> jeff

Gah.  I didn't notice either, just translated bin/true to EXIT_SUCCESS.

That's a good reason to use EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE :)

I changed the signature of main() because I remember there being
at least one compiler that would give an error if the usual parameters
weren't specified.  Don't remember what compiler/platform that was,
or if envp was needed or not, now.

WRT exit values, I think it was the CCS/C compiler on MPE/V (and maybe
MPE/XL aka MPEiX) that supported MPE's concept of some return values
indicating a warning rather than an error, so that EXIT_FAILURE needed
to be high enough to indicate an actual failure.  I think the HP C
compiler has always translated any non-zero into a failure, though.