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From: Ron AARON <clf@8th-dev.com>
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Subject: Re: bye with exit status
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 09:08:29 +0200
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8th uses the word "die", e.g. 1 die
The word "bye" is 0 die.

On 07/11/2024 20:50, Anthony Howe wrote:
> 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.
> 
>