Not nice, but works reasonably well. The invoking script "listens" to Pharo generating some output file. Have a look at builder.sh, it does that.

Lukas

On Friday, 25 November 2011, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For scripting purposes, I would like to use/control the VM exit status/value (on Linux).
>
> There is SmalltalkImage>>#snapshot:andQuit: but there is nothing there that indicates that one can set the process exit status. Is there a way to do that ?
>
> Has anyone a good idea on how the CogVM could communicate back to its invoking script whether is ran OK or not ?
>
> Thx,
>
> Sven
>

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