[potbelly83]

Why not have the program touch a file on success?

[anyfoo]

Why not have the program exit with exit code 0 on success, and non-0 on failure, like almost every program in a POSIX environment ever?

[potbelly83]

see yosefk reply above

[anyfoo]

I'm sorry, but "they committed some debug code that made the program exit(0)" for me is pretty much equivalent to "they committed some debug code that made the program not work correctly".