Re: Author tests and IPC::System::Simple

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:12:41PM +1100, Paul Fenwick wrote:

> If we're not using WCOREDUMP, then we face the disturbing possibility that
> we're generating a core dump, and ($? & 128) is false when that occurs.

This seems to be the case.

# perl -le 'system($^X, "-e", q/kill 6,$$; sleep 1/); print "version=$^V \$?=$? native=${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}"'

gives

version=v5.10.0 $?=6 native=134

version=5.008008 $?=134 native=

while dumping core in both cases.

So it looks like a bug in Perl 5.10.0.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org