First of all, I know that this is fixed in CVS with Zend 2, and I assume it is fixed on CVS php without Zend 2 BUT, we need a stable version with exit() working properly! So if someone can send a patch or something that would be good enough.

Here's the problem

In the manual it says that if you hand exit() an integer the script will return that value as the exit code and if you hand exit() a string it will print the string (to stderr I think) then exit. When you exit with a string there is no problem and the return code is 255, but when you exit with a number the return code is still 255.

Code to demonstrate the bug:
<?php
exit(5);
?>

This used to work in a version before 4.2.1 (not too sure which) but not it seems to have be broken for 4.2.1

Thanks