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Author	eryksun
Recipients	belopolsky, eryksun, ethan.furman, skrah
Date	2015-04-24.17:09:33
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Message-id	<1429895373.85.0.715963046398.issue24052@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> I believe a better behavior for sys.exit() would be to truncate > the code values to 8-bit range so that non-zero status would > always be returned as non-zero, but possibly different value. OK, so long as it's just for POSIX systems. Windows ExitProcess, ExitThread, TerminateProcess, and TerminateThread all use an unsigned int value for the exit code, and it's common to use a [Win32 error code][1] in the 16-bit range 0x0000 to 0xFFFF. [1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231199

> I believe a better behavior for sys.exit() would be to truncate 
> the code values to 8-bit range so that non-zero status would 
> always be returned as non-zero, but possibly different value.

OK, so long as it's just for POSIX systems. Windows ExitProcess, ExitThread, TerminateProcess, and TerminateThread all use an unsigned int value for the exit code, and it's common to use a [Win32 error code][1] in the 16-bit range 0x0000 to 0xFFFF.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231199

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