Re: creature = `feep

[hanche@ams.sunysb.edu (Harald Hanche-Olsen)]

> can you think of anything other than unix shells where 0 is true?

Yes, indeed I have even seen books on mathematical logic that used 0
for true and 1 for false.  Very confusing :-)

> i consider this a unix bug at least as serious as the spelling of
> creat.

I gather the reason is there is only one way to succeed, but many ways
to fail?

> (... i'm considering changing exit to an exception from just doing
> the exit(2) call inline.)

Please do.  Then we can more easily implement logout hooks (I like to
clear the screen and run a fortune on logout :-)

- Harald