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Re: Re: Eval and system()

by pmas (Hermit)
on Sep 05, 2001 at 18:30 UTC ( #110301=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Eval and system()
in thread Eval and system()

  • The standard C libraries, for reasons which will be left to your imagination, use '0' to indicate success and non-zero to indicate failure.
I remember it this way: routine returns error number. If returns 0 => no errors. It makes sense for C, any kind of TRUE value means some error. But you can have only one kind of success, so OK == 0.

If you looking at return value this way, it makes sense, right?

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