Re: java and status codes.

All,

Much to my dismay, it doesn't look like the exit code with java
(System.exit()) is hooked up with the OS. ie - if I say:

public class samp
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        System.exit(256);
    }
}

compile and run this as in:

javac samp.java
java samp

and then check the error status from the shell, I get:

echo $? // prints '0'

why is this? Is there a way to get the sun JVM to set $? on failure?
Else, how do you know the program failed, from a shell standpoint?

Ed