On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: >> $? didn't do the trick for me for some reason. >> I'll probe further and try to figure out why. > > Are you sure the program actually dumps core? With "limit coredumpsize 0" > in a shell (versus "limit coredumpsize unlimited"), there is no core dump > and the 7-th bit of $? is always zero (the "&& 128" check), as expected. > But even then, $? is not 0, also as expected. On all unix systems I have. >
I actually don't care if there is a core dump or not. I just wanted to know that the tool crashed. The fallback is not only to look for nonzero value of $? but I might get this triggered also when there is no crash... -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
