From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-01-24T05:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: exit status, stderr and stdout

Hi,

At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:33:26 +0900,
Daniel Bretoi wrote:
> This is what I was looking for but I can't seem to be getting the
> appropriate exit value anyway. I tried perl's $? & 127 which didn't give
> it to me either:

AFAIK, masking $? with 127 is to get the terminating signal.
To get child's exit status, you should right-shift 8 bit.  Or
in 1.7 lator, $? is an instance of Process::Status (unless
nil), and has #exitstatus method.

-- 
Nobu Nakada