Re: [PHP-DEV] patch to make for better shell scripting From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 09/07/01

At 13:57 07-09-01, Wez Furlong wrote:
>On 07/09/01, "Zeev Suraski" <zeev <email protected>> wrote:
> > At 12:45 07-09-01, Edin Kadribasic wrote:
> > > > Mainly this patch adds a -S option that will turn off html errors,
> > > > error_prepend_string, error_append_string, and output buffering.
> > >That's excellent. Now, I'm writing a simple MTA in php and having exit()
> > >return error codes instead of printing stuff would be really neat. Is this
> > >doable?
> > Nope - it seriously breaks backwards compatibility. We can have another
> > function that'd do that, shell_exit() or some better name.
>
>Can we have both the -S patch and shell_exit() for 4.0.7, or is that asking
>too much? :-)

Looking in the rules of RC's, then no - it's not a bug fix, but new
functionality, which may introduce new problems/bugs.

Zeev 

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