I ran this on ubuntu and I got 258 for the exit status.  Ialso tried this
with UWIN and also got 258.


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Terrence J. Doyle <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>         The ksh(1) man page states:
>
>         Commands.
>         A simple-command is... . The value of a simple-command is its
>         exit status;  0-255 if it  terminates  normally;  256+signum
>         if it terminates abnormally... .
>
> However, when I do the following:
>
> $ read
> ^C
> $ echo $?
> 2
> $
>
> I see that the exit status is simply signum, not 256+signum. The same
> goes for the other signals I've tried: SIGHUP, SIGQUIT, SIGTERM and
> SIGKILL. Is this a bug? Or, does the documentation need to be changed?
>
>                                         Terrence Doyle
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