From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...>
Date: 2011-12-08T22:56:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:44958] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5728] SystemExit.new(bool, message)

>> I don't think we have two.
>>
>> The latter choice is not acceptable, since the return value of (({Kernel#system})) and the first argument of (({Kernel#exit})) are same as the former.
>>
>> And should not assume (({EXIT_SUCCESS})) to be 0.
>
> Agreed.
>
> In addition, if this issue (#5728) and
> Process::EXIT_SUCCESS/Process::EXIT_FAILIURE issue (#5726) are both rejected,
> it is very diffcult to use SystemExit.new for EXIT_FAILURE.

I overlooked Kernel#exit. then I withdraw my argument. Thank you
for clarification. But, I'm still bit worry about confusable thing because
a lot of people know EXIT_SUCCESS==0 on their platform. so please
write a doc true convert to EXIT_SUCCES, and not 1 clearly.

Thank you.