On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Alex Jakimenko < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote:
> exit -99999 # exit code is 97 > exit -999999 # exit code is 193 > exit -999999999 # exit code is 1 > exit -99999999 # exit code is 1 > > I think that only non-negative numbers should be allowed. > Historically -1 has been used (on unixlikes) to mean 255; in the old days, whether the exit status was signed or not was per platform/implementation. (This is why shells produce 255 for command not found.) And... well, try these in perl 5 and see what you get. (tl;dr: the same values as rakudo) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
