Re: C portability is a myth

From: Randy Howard (randyhoward_at_FOOverizonBAR.net)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:13:01 GMT

In article <422018FD.38FC99FF@btinternet.com>,
infobahn@btinternet.com says...
> RETURN VALUE
>
> The value returned is -1 on error (e.g. fork failed), and the return
> status of the command otherwise. This latter return status is in the
> format specified in wait(2). Thus, the exit code of the command will
> be WEXITSTATUS(status). In case /bin/sh could not be executed, the
> exit status will be that of a command that does exit(127).
>
> CONFORMING TO
> ANSI C, POSIX.2, BSD 4.3
> (etc)
>
> The implication of the man page is that /bin/sh -c, SIGCHLD, SIGQUIT,
> wait, WEXITSTATUS, and the semantics of the return status, are all
> defined by ANSI.

Not to mention fork(). I knew somebody would find a man page
showing the other side. What I am surprised by is the way the
role of the usual MS bashers and Linux bashers seem to be
reversed in this. :-) 

-- 
Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)
"Making it hard to do stupid things often makes it hard
 to do smart ones too." -- Andrew Koenig

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