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Re: Re: need both from system-callby hdp (Beadle) |
| on Apr 27, 2001 at 12:20 UTC ( [id://76048]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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As perlvar documents, $? is "just the
16-bit status word returned by the
wait() system call (or else is made up to look
like it). Thus, the exit value of the subprocess
is really ('$? >> 8')". It looks like perl thinks the exit
value it got was 100.
hdp.
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