"John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This change seems to have forced the several routines that were > translating the status correctly on VMS to use STATUS_EXIT which is > basically resulting a number of success status values being translated > to a fatal error condition instead of being passed through. > > I am not sure that I can untangle this so that the old somewhat broken > VMS exit behavior is completely preserved.
I am not sure we want to preserve the old behaviour in 5.10. More consistency would be appreciable, esp. now that we have more variables to look at with the new ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}.