>>>>> "GL" == Greg London <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GL> system('cvs update -rtagname')
GL> breaks this when the tagname doesn't exist.
GL> It dies with a signal for some reason, rather
GL> than just giving a simple non-zero exit status.
GL> If the command fails like that, I just want
GL> to continue running the perl script.
GL> perdoc -q control-c doesn't say any particular
GL> bit is used to flag control-c, but the cvs command
GL> set bit 1, while a control-c during a cp -r
GL> command set bit 2.
what bits? the signal part is a number (0-31) in a single byte and the
exit code (another single byte) is in the other byte.
GL> If I just test bit 2 rather than 7..0,
GL> would that still trap all the control-c's
GL> but let all the commands that failed on their own
GL> to keep running?
>> if ($? & 0xff) {
>> die "Process killed by signal ".($? & 0xff);
>> } elsif ($? >> 8) {
>> die "Process exited with status ".($? >> 8);
>> } else {
>> # Worked fine
>> }
are you using that code (or basing on it)? extract out both bytes and
print them as integers and see what you get.
uri
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