>>>>> "Greg" == Greg London <Greg> writes: Greg> ah man, so perl decided to fiddle with the definition but keep the same Greg> name? that is so messing with my feng shui.
Actually, the value returned by Perl is the more authentic value that returns from wait(2), and also tells you whether core was dumped, and the signal that killed it (if any). The shell sweeps all that away, and loses information. If anything, yell at your shell for lying to you. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
