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Rollup merge of rust-lang#83462 - ijackson:exitstatus-message-wording…
…, r=joshtriplett ExitStatus: print "exit status: {}" rather than "exit code: {}" on unix Proper Unix terminology is "exit status" (vs "wait status"). "exit code" is imprecise on Unix and therefore unclear. (As far as I can tell, "exit code" is correct terminology on Windows.) This new wording is unfortunately inconsistent with the identifier names in the Rust stdlib. It is the identifier names that are wrong, as discussed at length in eg https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/process/struct.ExitStatus.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/os/unix/process/trait.ExitStatusExt.html Unfortunately for API stability reasons it would be a lot of work, and a lot of disruption, to change the names in the stdlib (eg to rename `std::process::ExitStatus` to `std::process::ChildStatus` or something), but we should fix the message output. Many (probably most) readers of these messages about exit statuses will be users and system administrators, not programmers, who won't even know that Rust has this wrong terminology. So I think the right thing is to fix the documentation (as I have already done) and, now, the terminology in the implementation. This is a user-visible change to the behaviour of all Rust programs which run Unix subprocesses. Hopefully no-one is matching against the exit status string, except perhaps in tests.
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