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   Anthony Howe to Ruvim   
   Re: bye with exit status   
   07 Nov 24 13:50:48   
   
   From: achowe@snert.com   
      
   On 2024-11-07 06:56, Ruvim wrote:   
   > I would like to find a more appropriate name for this word than "bye-status".   
      
   (bye) ( u -- )   
      
   Seems apropos, short, to the point and indicative of an internal word.  Default   
   can be defined to return to the host OS with an exit status `u`, but maybe be   
   replaced in (unhosted) environments to perform some sort of system reset, power   
   cycle, or other implementation defined system reset.   
      
   > `terminate` is a good candidate, but it's unclear what it should terminate   
   â€” a   
   > thread/task, or a process, or the own process, or the own thread.   
      
   TERMINATE could have the same meaning as SIGTERM *:   
      
     SIGTERM (Terminated)   
              This signal is the default signal sent by kill(1) and represents a   
              user or administrator request that a program shut down [normally].   
      
   * Other signals result in abnormal termination.   
      
      
   --   
   Anthony C Howe   
   achowe@snert.com                                   BarricadeMX & Milters   
   http://nanozen.snert.com/                          http://software.snert.com/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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