Re: how do I extract status from the response of waitpid ?

The exit code is '$? >> 8', not the returned value. $? is documented in perlvar man page.

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Re^2: how do I extract status from the response of waitpid ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 14, 2015 at 12:17 UTC
`$? >> 8` is only meaningful if `waitpid` returned a value greater than zero and if `$? != -1 && ($? & 0x7F) == 0`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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