Java Result:-1....on calling exit

[Cosmos]

i wrote the following code-


package javalang;

public class SystemClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
//System.out.println("time:"+System.currentTimeMilli s());
//System.exit(1);
Runtime.getRuntime().exit(-1);
System.out.println("hello");
}

}


and the o/p was-

Java Result:-1

i know that passing 0 as input means successful termination of program and any other argument means some sort of abnormal termination.....but

my question is what does Java Result:-1 means????

[Norm]

what does Java Result:-1 mean

The meaning is what the caller of the program agrees that it should mean.
The OS can have a set of return codes that have a meaning. The program will return one of them depending on what it wants to tell the OS. Some batch/script file/executors can read the code returned by a program and use it to control their processing

A company I worked for in San Francisco had -1906 as an error code meaning the program had a terrific error.
(1906 was the year of the fire)

[Cosmos]

ok...thanks...:)