From 6a468bf71cd4665d7872f48821dec69566f438cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1991 13:15:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Raise SystemExit instead of calling goaway().

---
 Python/sysmodule.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index ef93d2095f9..c8460682cb0 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -96,12 +96,9 @@ sys_exit(self, args)
 	object *self;
 	object *args;
 {
-	int sts;
-	if (!getintarg(args, &sts))
-		return NULL;
-	goaway(sts);
-	exit(sts); /* Just in case */
-	/* NOTREACHED */
+	/* Raise SystemExit so callers may catch it or clean up. */
+	err_setval(SystemExit, args);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static struct methodlist sys_methods[] = {