use POSIX; my $st = 139; print "WIFEXITED: ", WIFEXITED($st), "\n"; print "WIFSIGNALED: ", WIFSIGNALED($st), "\n"; print "WTERMSIG: ", WTERMSIG($st), "\n"; #### WIFEXITED: 0 WIFSIGNALED: 1 WTERMSIG: 11