From: "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@...>
Date: 2003-05-28T07:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: system calls

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 01:56:41AM +0900, J.Hawkesworth wrote:
> Don't know if this helps but I recall that in perl you have to divide by
> 256 to get the real return value.  (Tried to test here but running under
> Windows and therefore have no 'fork' to eat really_cool_system with).

This is because the reason for the program termination (e.g. caught a
signal, called exit,....) is encoded in the least significant 8 bits.

Maybe, a absolutly_gorgous_system() should report this too... ;-)

greetings, Florian Pflug