On 4/15/19 4:31 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:

> 
> The Korn shell uses values > 256 to denote `internal' shell exit statuses,
> but that violates POSIX.

No, actually it does NOT violate POSIX.  In fact, POSIX has tried hard
to permit that ksh behavior, in particular since that extension allows
an easy distinction between normal exit with 8-bit status and exit due
to signal.

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