On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:22:20 -0500, Yanick Champoux <yanick.champ...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/12 09:56, Yanick Champoux wrote: > > which should be okay, but I'm suddenly thinking: on some shells > > 'exit' might not do what we would expect. Indeed, I just tried: > > > > $ perl -E'say system "exit 1"' > > -1 > > And just to keep things interesting, I've noticed that I forgot the > ending semi-colon that is in the test. But surely that won't-- > > $ perl -E'say system "exit 1"; say system "exit 1;"' > -1 > 256 % perl -E'say system "exit 1"; say system "exit 1;"' -1 256 > --make a difference... Uuuh, okay, I need to brush up my shell > syntax skills. And should probably look into making that test slightly > less shell-dependent. > > Joy, > `/anick -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
