On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:20:50PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> seems there's a way to get bash to report exit values greater than 255 ...
you will find the special error values
in shell.h, for instance
#define EX_SHERRBASE 256 /* all special error values are > this. */
#define EX_BADSYNTAX 257 /* shell syntax error */
#define EX_USAGE 258 /* syntax error in usage */
#define EX_REDIRFAIL 259 /* redirection failed */
#define EX_BADASSIGN 260 /* variable assignment error */
#define EX_EXPFAIL 261 /* word expansion failed */
> $ echo '<enter>
> <ctrl+c>
> $ echo $?
> 386
but you haven't mentioned your version.
(I don't see that with bash-3.2.48/4.0.0 on linux 2.6.23/libc2.3.6)
