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<note><p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status
- codes 0-255.</p></note>
+ codes 0-255. A too large status code will be truncated by clearing
+ the high bits.</p></note>
<p>For integer <c><anno>Status</anno></c>, the Erlang runtime system
closes all ports and allows async threads to finish their
operations before exiting. To exit without such flushing, use