On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:59:10AM +0100, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> 
> this section of the standard also contains: "If the value of status 
> [the parameter to exit()] is EXIT_FAILURE, an implementation-defined 
> form of the status unsucessful termination is returned. Otherwise the 
> status returned is implementation-defined".
> 
Which I presume cannot be interpreted to mean, as an extreme
consideration, that my exit(EXIT_FAILURE) might return the value of
"errno" in some encoded fashion to the environment?

++L