Re: [PHP-DEV] why does exit() print its argument? From: Zeev Suraski (zeev <email protected>)
Date: 09/29/01

The WTF factor is generally higher with magical stuff like that. It's not
too far fetched to realize a situation where a 'WTF?' will be flown into
the air, just because the error message happened to be "1", or "20"...

shell_exit() is not a very good name. That's why I haven't failed to
mention, every time I mentioned it, that a better name would be better. We
can have exit_with_status(), silent_exit(), etc.

Zeev

At 05:53 29-09-01, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote:
>WTF factor: WTF is shell_exit? Exit to shell? Does it start a shell?
>:-)
>
> - Stig
>
>[Zeev Suraski <zeev <email protected>>]
> > Is there any good reason not to simply add a new function? It's not
> > as if it ever behaved that way. This magic tends to later fire back
> > at us.
> >
> > Zeev
> >
> > At 03:17 29-09-01, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > >How about if we overload it a bit. I think anybody who does exit(1) is
> > >expecting 1 to be set as the return status whereas someone who does
> > >exit('something bad happened') is expecting the string to be shown a-la
> > >die(). So let's just check the arg and do the appropriate thing. I would
> > >be very surprised if that broke anything.
> > >
> > >-Rasmus
> > >
> > >On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 03:10 29-09-01, Jim Winstead wrote:
> > > > >On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:12:51AM +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > > > > > Uhm, I'm not dumb :) Of course it enables you to do that, but
> > > that's the
> > > > > > wrong place to put it. exit() has, since its introduction, been a
> > > > > complete
> > > > > > equivalent of die(), and had nothing to do with exit
> statuses. Putting
> > > > > > this code there was wrong (even though who knows, maybe I even
> > > did that).
> > > > >
> > > > >no, sascha did. php3 does the same thing.
> > > >
> > > > Ok, looks like it's old enough (as old as mid 1999). We should
> probably
> > > > leave it at that and introduce a new shell_exit() function.
> > > >
> > > > Zeev
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
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