Hello Monks, I'm getting the following error message from a perl module called Phi.pm.

I can not execute the PHI test: Phi: Inappropriate ioctl for device at /biologia-scratch3/mc.martinez297/programs/Unus-master/Unus/Test/Phi.pm line 63

First, I thought it was a problem related with permissions, so I changed them. This module has read and execution permissions.

So, then I looked the line 63, and I have the following:


61 chdir "$aln.phi";
62 system "$phi -f '$aln' &>$aln.phi/Phi.out";
63 LOGDIE "I can not execute the PHI test: $phi:\n$!" unless $?==0;
64 -s "Phi.log" or LOGDIE "PHI test ($phi -f '$aln' &>$aln.phi/Phi.out) returned an empty output, please check '$aln.phi/Phi.out' to inspect the reason s.";

I read the recomendations in http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=589324 , and they recommended to erase $! but I don't know what to do with $?==0, since $! and $? are "different types of error conditions"(http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html)

However, I still don't understand what is happening with these variables.

I'm new in Perl, so I'll appreciate the help

In reply to Inappropriate ioctl for device using Phi.pm on system call by To_Bz

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