Your message dated Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:21:12 +0200 with message-id <20081217202112.ga1...@rebekka> has caused the report #509041, regarding perl: $? & 128 not set when dumping core to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) [email protected]
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--- Begin Message ---On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:34:03PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > I see <sys/wait.h> defines WCOREDUMP only with __USE_BSD here > (Debian testing and unstable, glibc 2.7). Further digging shows the problem is that <sys/wait.h> doesn't get included at all. We do build with -D_GNU_SOURCE, which implies __USE_BSD. Proposed patch attached, this fixes it for me on both 5.10.0 and blead. % ./miniperl -le 'system($^X, "-e", q/kill 6,$$; sleep 1/); print "version=$] \$?=$? native=${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}"' version=5.011000 $?=134 native=134 (This is now also http://bugs.debian.org/509041 [Cc'd]) -- Niko Tyni [email protected]>From 82d5a5d6eb1dfe8775d62de2f04ff659035bce3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Niko Tyni <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:02:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] WCOREDUMP is in <sys/wait.h> Without this, $? & 128 doesn't get set properly on some (glibc) systems when dumping core. --- perl.h | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/perl.h b/perl.h index 7d22338..c6008bb 100644 --- a/perl.h +++ b/perl.h @@ -677,6 +677,11 @@ register struct op *Perl_op asm(stringify(OP_IN_REGISTER)); # include <unistd.h> #endif +/* for WCOREDUMP */ +#ifdef I_SYS_WAIT +# include <sys/wait.h> +#endif + #ifdef __SYMBIAN32__ # undef _SC_ARG_MAX /* Symbian has _SC_ARG_MAX but no sysconf() */ #endif -- 1.5.6.5
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