Production RiskSoftware ResiliencyCode Reliability
Production Risk
No explicit EXIT instruction in last statement in KSH can be risky
This code insight counts one violation each time the last instruction of the script is not EXIT.
Why you should care
If no exit is used, the default behaviour is to exit with the return code of the last command executed. A well controlled error management practice is to to terminate with an explicit EXIT statement.
Business Impacts
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