Re: show-bugs script: show release-critical bugs on installed packages

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, Blars Blarson wrote:

> open BUGS, "w3m -dump http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/all.html |"
>     or die "Could not connect to bugs.debian.org";

You misunderstand what this open does. All it tells you is that the
underlying pipe() and fork() calls went well.

You can get w3m's exit status from the corresponding close() call.

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