[issue24052] sys.exit(code) returns "success" to the OS for some nonzero values of code

[Ethan Furman]

Ethan Furman added the comment:

If anything changes here it needs to be O/S dependent.  MS Windows can work with DWORD return values, so truncating to 8-bits is wrong for that platform.

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