On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:28:21PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> >WRT to VMS tests, the problem was Test::Harness made a special case to
> >display native VMS exit codes rather than do POSIX emulation.
> >Test::Harness::Straps didn't emulate this until just now.  Is this the
> >desired behavior?

Was that a "yes"?

Allow me to rephrase.  What would you like the behavior to be on VMS?


> If you use the POSIX emulation, (which is what $? does by default) you will 
> only see the following values:
> 
> 0 = success
> 1 = warning
> 2 = error
> 4 = fatal error
> 
> If you need more than those, you can do so via the "use vmsish 'exit'" and 
> "use vmsish 'status'" pragmas, but in that case you won't see everything 
> shifted up by 8 bits like POSIX statuses are.


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