On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 04:20:19PM +0300, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
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> I thing this utility is more script-friendly and more extensible.
[...]
> #define RETURN_BASE 100
> #define GETMODE     10
> #define GKBMODE     20
> #define GKBMETA     30

Multi-value exit status is not quite script-friendly, especially for
values greater than 128, because exit codes greater than 128 are used
by the shell to indicate that a program died due to a fatal signal.


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