"exit 0;" - or - "exit (0);" ?

[Ken Thompson]

In article <1512 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
> While K&R explicitly say that exit() is a function, I commonly see
> the parens dropped.  Is that "legal"? Does it work on existing compilers?

exit must be a function in C. However,

                             exit 0;

is legitimate Bourne shell syntax. Is it possible that you have seen this
in a shell script not a C program ?


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