Re: bye with exit status

On 2024-11-07 22:50, 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. 

Yes, and because of the latter this name cannot be used for a standard word. Standard words are not internal words, but are part of the public interface.
What about the following options:
   badbye ( n -- never )
     - because it's probably not normal termination
     - if n is 0, then it's false-bad (i.e, good)
   goodbye ( n -- never )
     - ironically when n is not zero
   getout ( n -- never )
     - send control very far from here

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.
 

SIGTERM is a good association with processes.
Perhaps, SIGTERM can be send to another process too.
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Ruvim