[kubb]

"People deliberately misuse the very mechanism that was designed to indicate successful completion, so we added another, flawed detection mechanism based on IO, because there's no way they'll do the thing that they should have learned in the first year of school, and just call exit with any other argument than 0 on irregular completion".

Gosh I thought the engineering culture was bad where I work.

[ryandrake]

Yea, whatever you do, don't solve the actual problem! This reminds me of solving a buffer overflow by just blindly increasing the size of the buffer until it no longer crashes.

[hackable_sand]

The amount of problems I have handled with liberal void* is greater than I care to admit

[roughly]

Brother, have I got bad news for you about all the places outside your door.