On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:04:47PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote: > > > 2) Why does runperl() in t/test.pl abort on VMS if exit status is wrong? > > (or is it vmspipe.com aborting?) > > When you run vms/test.com, it's running t/TEST by default. Isn't > bailing out early the normal behavior for TEST (as opposed to > harness)? The abort messages are just the usual result of > transmogrifying a generic unixy failure exit to a generic VMS failure > exit: > > $ perl -e "exit 1;" > %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
Yes, it is. I've got spoiled by t/harness, which doesn't, and failed to realise that t/TEST behaves differently. Nicholas Clark
