> > It's not a bug. the exit status of a command, the "return" of your > > function, is limited to the numbers 0-255. > > It's 0-128, actually.
Whoops, no, you're right. You just can't count on exit statuses
greater than 127 not conflicting with processes exiting due to a
signal, so practice is to limit exit statuses to 0-127.
Chet
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