On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:56:59 -0500, Yanick Champoux
<yanick.champ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/12 09:30, Charles Jardine wrote:
> >> > t/10general.t ............ Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
> > This symptom indicates that the system built-in function is not working.
> >
> > Try
> >
> > perl -e 'print system("exit 1;"), "\n"'
>
> Hmmm... The test that is failing is
>
> is system("exit 1;"), 1<<8, 'system exit 1 should return 256';
>
> which should be okay, but I'm suddenly thinking: on some shells
> 'exit' might not do what we would expect. Indeed, I just tried:
My shell is not what most people use:
% echo $SHELL $version
/pro/bin/tcsh tcsh 6.17.02 (Astron) 2010-05-12 (x86_64-unknown-linux) options
wide,nls,vi,kan,rh,color,ccat,filec,procura
% perl -E'say system "exit 1"'
-1
% perl -E'say system "exit 0"'
-1
% perl -E'say system "exit -1"'
-1
% echo $status
0
> $ perl -E'say system "exit 1"'
> -1
>
> And yet the tests usually pass on my machine. I have to look at
> that in more details...
>
> Joy,
> `/anick
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