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| -rw-r--r-- | e_os.h | 8 |
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@@ -377,6 +377,13 @@ extern FILE *_imp___iob; So, what we do here is to change 0 to 1 to get the default success status, and everything else is shifted up to fit into the status number field, and the status is tagged as an error, which I believe is what is wanted here. + + Finally, we add the VMS C facility code 0x35a000, because there are some + programs, such as Perl, that will reinterpret the code back to something + POSIXly. 'man perlvms' explains it further. + NOTE: the perlvms manual wants to turn all codes 2 to 255 into success + codes (status type = 1). I couldn't disagree more. Fortunately, the + status type doesn't seem to bother Perl. -- Richard Levitte */ # define EXIT(n) do { int __VMS_EXIT = n; \ @@ -385,6 +392,7 @@ extern FILE *_imp___iob; else \ __VMS_EXIT = (n << 3) | 2; \ __VMS_EXIT |= 0x10000000; \ + __VMS_EXIT |= 0x35a000; \ exit(__VMS_EXIT); } while(0) # define NO_SYS_PARAM_H # define NO_SYS_UN_H |