Tony,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 31 May 2001 13:37:30 +0100 in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm spawning a process from within a perl script and then doing a waitpid
> on it and checking the return status,
> I am looking at $? which appears to return the pid and a status in the
> next 8 bits.
>
> However I really need to see the VMS exit status , the documentation
> perlvms.pod seems to suggest that this will be contained in $^S
> however it appears to be always blank. ( perl version 5.6.1)
>
> Is the VMS exit status available ?
Add a:
use vmsish qw( status);
and $? will contain actual VMS exit codes. Otherwise it always contains
a *nix formatted thing that's useless.
> Aplogies for asking silly questions, but I'm finding the perlvms.pod to be
> less than 100% accurate.
No problem.
Ed James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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