On Sat, Sep 15, 2018, at 02:30, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxx>, 2018-09-13, 08:35: > >Admittedly, the POSIX specification for exit() also uses octal. > >However, 0xFF immediately indicates the lowest 8 bits to me whereas I > >had to think a bit about the octal mask. > > I agree that 0xFF is readability improvement over 0377. > BTW, _exit.2 manpage has the same problem. I'd like it to be fixed too. Good thought. I'll send an updated patch with _exit modified, too.
