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From: Alan Cox
Subject: Re: [PATCH]exit.c: support larger exit code
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010 - 3:57 am

> There is probably a deeper reason as errno.h/errno-base.h all seem to be 

man 2 wait

and also note that int was 16bits in the times when Unix wait/exit
behaviour was formulated.

Alan
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Re: [PATCH]exit.c: support larger exit code, Zhang, Wei-Jovi (NSN ..., (Sun Aug 8, 8:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH]exit.c: support larger exit code, Alexander Clouter, (Mon Aug 9, 1:25 am)
Re: [PATCH]exit.c: support larger exit code, Alan Cox, (Mon Aug 9, 3:57 am)