>>My worry is that it seems like this would return
>>an empty list on success, so:
>>
>> @foo = chmod 755, "bar", "baz", "quux"
>> or die "Whoops, died on success!";
>>
>>
>>This seems to me to go contrary to the way perl tends to work... are
>>there any other functions (beside system) that do this? Am I
>>misunderstanding this?
>No, you've hit on the biggest flaw of the RFC. I am less enamored of it
>now than I once was. I'd still like to get those individual failure
>reasons but I am beginning to think it is not worth the cost. Anyone got a
>brainwave on how to have the cake and eat it too?
I'm also concerned about all the separate errnos for each of those failures.
--tom