On Feb 3,  1:44pm, Tad Bochan wrote:
> Mike Fitzwilliam wrote :-
> >We run a monitor program which scans the system logfiles, looking at
> >process termination records, and generating operator alerts where a
> >process
> >has terminated abnormally. The definition of the process termination log
> >record (type 104) states that the termination type should be 0 for normal
> >termination and 3 if the process called the Quit intrinsic. I have found
> >that Posix programs such as TOBYTE and ZIP always seem to terminate with
> >type 3, generating spurious alerts....

> Since I was the author of the monitor, I would also be interested in the
> reason for the problem...

-------------response from Mike Paivinen, CSY---------------
Actually, I just looked at the code, and exit() calls terminate_process
with parameters that make it look like a QUIT intrinsic call.  There's
no documentation that says why.

Mike P.

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