Re: system call returns incorrect in windows

[ikegami]

That should work on Windows.

>perl -E"say system('perl -e exit($ARGV[0]) 0'); say $?; say ${^CHILD_
+ERROR_NATIVE}"
0
0
0

>perl -E"say system('perl -e exit($ARGV[0]) 1'); say $?; say ${^CHILD_
+ERROR_NATIVE}"
256
256
256

Please provide more info (e.g. perl -V).

What's ant's file extension (e.g. .exe)? (Not sure if that matters.)

[ericaQA]

Hi, yes ant in this case would be ant.exe

E:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

So not the very latest but not ancient. Latest from ActiveState is 5.26.1.2601. I'll see if I can upgrade and notice a difference

Edit: I'm getting the same results after upgrading to the latest version, weird that