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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Description of problem:
Call to exit() returns 255 instead of passed value

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create test script (test.php)
<?php
 exit(1);
?>
2. # php -f test.php ; echo $?

    

Actual Results:  255

Expected Results:  1

Additional info:

Problem is fixed in php 4.2.3 stock source code.
Seems to be fixed by the following patch
(this patch is taken from a diff between 4.2.2 and 4.2.3)
--- php-4.2.2/sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c.orig  2003-02-21 13:42:28.000000000 -0500
+++ php-4.2.2/sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c       2003-02-21 13:53:20.000000000 -0500
@@ -775,11 +775,8 @@
 
                switch (behavior) {
                        case PHP_MODE_STANDARD:
-                               if (php_execute_script(&file_handle TSRMLS_CC)) 
{
-                                       exit_status = EG(exit_status);
-                               } else {
-                                       exit_status = 255;
-                               }
+                php_execute_script(&file_handle TSRMLS_CC);
+                exit_status = EG(exit_status);
                                break;
                        case PHP_MODE_LINT:
                                PG(during_request_startup) = 0;