Re: FYI: more exit code tuning (Was: Re: exit status 63)

[Patrick Welche]

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:00:59PM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  adl> Patrick Welche <address@hidden> writes:
>  >> autoupdate: /usr/pkg/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 63
>  >> tools.at:602: exit code was 1, expected 63
>  >> 12. tools.at:588: 12. tools.at:588: FAILED near `tools.at:602'
> 
>  adl> Hi Patrick,
> 
>  adl> Thank you for the report.
> 
>  adl> Could you tell us more about your environment?  (OS? Perl version?)
> 
> I was able to reproduce this on a NetBSD 1.6_RC1 box with Perl 5.6.1
> installed.  There, calling POSIX::WEXITSTATUS will alter the value
> of $!, causing what you saw.

Exactly! (NetBSD-1.6T/i386 and perl 5.6.1)

> I've installed the following patch, which also fixes the `xqx' function.

And all tests now pass :-)

Thank you,

Patrick