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System call return values

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flawless69

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May 31, 2002
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Ok,

I'm digging through this 50 page script (not fun) that sets up a X.500 directory. Anyways there are some system calls to specific commands for the directory and they are returning a value of 255 (after the division by 256 to get true exit value). What does 255 represent? Anyone have any light on this? I'm trying to find out why this directory isn't running and its darn hard with the poor documentation in this huge script. From what I can tell from the script the return value from the system call is used to do some error reporting but all it reports is the value returned from the system call.

Thanks --Derek

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