Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!idallen From: idallen@watmath.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix,net.lang.c Subject: Re: 'exit(1);' considered useless (slight flame) Message-ID: <6873@watmath.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 23:56:25 EST Article-I.D.: watmath.6873 Posted: Fri Feb 10 23:56:25 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 10:20:00 EST References: <934@cbosgd.UUCP> <957@cwruecmp.UUCP>, <831@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 8 I'd rather that the shell went through the trouble of checking for the exact cause of an error, instead of forcing me to do it. The code to do this checking need not even be in the shell -- when an error occurs, the shell can call some other code to track down the error to something more specific than "Permission denied". If you're really clever, you might make the further search and elaboration a user-settable option... -- -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) University of Waterloo