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Any one familiar with this error?

exit code 100 error

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A numeric exit status like 100 on Unix usually has no universal meaning — it is whatever the process (or a helper it invoked) chose to return. That makes the problem one of locating who called exit(100) or returned 100 and why. was right to ask for environment details; clarified it’s Unix and suspects a DB stored procedure, and correctly noted the value may come from someone else’s code.

A practical checklist to find the source and fix it:

  • Reproduce and isolate. Run the program from a shell and immediately check the status with echo $?. Try calling the stored procedure directly from your DB client (sql client, psql, sqlplus, mysql) to see whether it produces the same numeric result or an explicit DB error.

  • Search the codebase and scripts for literal returns or exits:

    grep -R --line-number -E "exit\\(|return[[:space:]]+100" .

    Also search SQL files for RETURN 100 or SIGNAL/RAISE.

  • Catch who issues the exit at runtime. Use strace to watch for the exit syscall:

    strace -f -e trace=process ./your_program 2>&1 | grep -E "exit_group|exit\\("

    Or run under gdb and break on exit to get a backtrace:

    gdb --args ./your_program [args]
(gdb) break exit
(gdb) run
(gdb) bt

  • If the stored procedure is the culprit, add explicit diagnostics: an OUT parameter, log rows to a debug table, or have the procedure raise a descriptive error. Check the DB server error/log files for stack traces or messages.

Useful references: POSIX exit semantics and the lack of a standard meaning for arbitrary exit values (see sysexits for common conventions), and strace for catching exit calls: and https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/strace.1.html

If the grep/trace shows the 100 originates inside a third-party module, get that module’s source or documentation to interpret the meaning.

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Oops, sorry
Unix platform

It seems like on the DB section of my code, it might be on storing procedure might fail and return 100.

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Check the piece of code that's throwing this error.. it could be written by someone else, in which case only that guy can tell you what he meant by 100 !
Looking at the info available it's not possible to say anything..

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