gawk's exit # statement doesn't work

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From: Jim Meyering
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 17:29

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Gawk exits with a zero `status' even with statements like "exit 1"

> ai% gawk -V '{exit 2}' < /dev/null
> Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.11, patchlevel 1
> ai% echo $status
> 0
> ai%

Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu

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