Would returning the array of status be sufficient?
@foo = chmod 755, "bar", "baz", "quux";
# @foo == (0, 2, 0);
How to convert them to error messages would be a challenge.
Unless passing them through $! would do the trick.
Hmm, perl -wle '$!=3; print $!'
No such process
Yup, works.
<chaim>
>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> At 06:40 AM 8/30/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> >>My worry is that it seems like this would return
>> >>an empty list on success, so:
>> >>
>> >> @foo = chmod 755, "bar", "baz", "quux"
>> >> or die "Whoops, died on success!";
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>This seems to me to go contrary to the way perl tends to work... are
>> >>there any other functions (beside system) that do this? Am I
>> >>misunderstanding this?
>>
>> >No, you've hit on the biggest flaw of the RFC. I am less enamored of it
>> >now than I once was. I'd still like to get those individual failure
>> >reasons but I am beginning to think it is not worth the cost. Anyone got a
>> >brainwave on how to have the cake and eat it too?
>>
>> I'm also concerned about all the separate errnos for each of those failures.
PS> where PerlLIO_chmod is defined as chmod on most righteous systems. So it
PS> would be a matter of squirreling away the errno for each bad result.
PS> I just can't get over the result in the successful case being an empty
PS> list, though. And conversely. Maybe this isn't itching enough to be worth
PS> scratching this hard, but it seemed like a good direction :-( Anyone got
PS> any brilliant ideas before I withdraw it?
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