On Thursday 26 February 2009 03:25:50 Sven Mascheck wrote: > 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 */
those dont appear to be documented anywhere ... my bash(1) page mentions standard 0..127 and 128+n (where n is the signal #). > > $ 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) i havent, but Chet would have guessed bash-4 since ive e-mailed so many times over the last few days about regressions in it ... -mike
