[Info-vax] Which quota exceeded?

[Henry Crun]

On 03/03/12 11:52, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Phillip Helbig---undress to reply<helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de>  wrote:
>
> (snip)
>> OK, the reverse of my situation.
>
>> Ever wonder why a fully priviledged accout can't execute the DCL command
>> "$ EXIT 34"?  :-)
>
> I just tried "exit 8" which might seem even more surprising.
>
> I had forgotten them message, but I previouslyu did an exit(8)
> in a C program and hunted for the error for (not so long) before
> figuring it out.
>
> Certain IBM systems always return exit codes that are multiples of four.
> (0 for success, 4 for warning, 8 for error, 12 for severe error.)
> Possibly convenient in that you can use it to address a jump
> table of four byte addresses or four byte branch instructions.
> In any case, I had an exit(8) in a C program.
>
> -- glen

try: $exit 2928

-- 
Mike R.
Home: http://alpha.mike-r.com/
QOTD: http://alpha.mike-r.com/php/qotd.php
No Micro$oft products were used in the URLs above, or in preparing this message.
Recommended reading: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before