Re: os.exit() with EXIT_SUCCESS and _FAILURE

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 05:58, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:54:20AM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>> > Would it be possible for some future version of Lua to expose the C
>> > stdlib.h constants EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE in the os library, for
>> > use with os.exit()?  The values of them are implementation-defined, and
>> > so they're useful.
>>
>> Personally, I'd use booleans for that:
>>       os.exit(true)   -->     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)
>>       os.exit(false)  -->     exit(EXIT_FAILURE)
>> plus the current scheme:
>>       os.exit()       -->     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)
>>       os.exit(n)      -->     exit(n)
>
> I like this.  Too late for 5.2?
>
> B.
>
>

+1, though I wonder if there might be a reason to expose the values as
well? Maybe for checking return values from other processes?

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