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Why is the EXIT status returned by SQL*Plus wrong under UNIX?

April 26, 2017RETURNED Status Unix wrong

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Why is the EXIT status returned by SQL*Plus wrong under UNIX?

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If the child process terminated due to an _exit() call, the low order 8 bits of status will be 0 and the high order 8 bits will contain the low order 8 bits of the argument that the child process passed to _exit(); see exit(2).