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Re: ldap tool result codes



On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:

> > The point is: LDAP error codes are integers, while command return 
> > codes for portability __should__ limited to "chars" (o->255) as far as 
> > I can tell (please correct me).
> 
> Yes.  Or even 0->127, since $? in the shell is 128 + signal number when 
> the process died due to signal.  No idea if that's standard or a 
> deliberate bash feature or what, or if it's just lazy OS-dependent code.

That's been the case for every Unix/shell I've used over the past 30 
years.

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