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From: Anthony Howe <achowe@snert.com>
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Subject: Re: bye with exit status
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 13:50:48 -0500
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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 — 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.


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Anthony C Howe
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