This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE wait() and waitpid() should return false on failure =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 13 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 220 Version: 1 Status: Developing =head1 ABSTRACT All system calls in Perl should return false on failure. =head1 DESCRIPTION wait() and waitpid() return -1 on failure. They should return C<undef>, and return C<"0 but true"> if the system call returned 0. =head1 IMPLEMENTATION Straightforward. The perl526 translator simply wraps the perl6 wait() and waitpid(): do { my $r = waitpid(...); return -1 if !defined $r; return 0 if !$r; $r } =head1 REFERENCES the perlfunc manpage for information on waitpid() and wait()
