From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2003-03-17T00:31:02+09:00
Subject: Re: mapping $? to text message

In article <1047827648.000356.4358.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
  matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> IIRC, perror(3) prints message corresponding to errno, not return
> status, right?  If there's a portable way to get text message from
> return status, I'd be glad to add the feature.

class Process::Status
  def inspect
    coredump = coredump? ? " (core dumped)" : ""
    if exited?
      "#<#{self.class}: exited: #{exitstatus}#{coredump}>"
    elsif stopped?
      "#<#{self.class}: stopped: #{Signal.list.invert[stopsig]}#{coredump}>"
    elsif signaled?
      "#<#{self.class}: signaled: #{Signal.list.invert[termsig]}#{coredump}>"
    else
      "#<#{self.class}: 0x#{to_i.to_s(16)}#{coredump}>"
    end
  end
end
-- 
Tanaka Akira