Re: RFC 213 (v1) rindex and index should return undef on failure

[Nathan Wiger]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> Speaking of failure-mode, all syscalls should return false on failure, not
> ever -1.  Right now, wait and waitpid work the other way.  They should
> go the undef vs "0 but true" route that ioctl, fcntl, and sysread take.

And system()!

But I'm pretty sure you meant that already...

-Nate