http://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html 

$CHILD_ERROR
$?

The status returned by the last pipe close, backtick (`` ) 
command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the 
system() operator. This is just the 16-bit status word 
returned by the traditional Unix wait() system call (or else 
is made up to look like it). Thus, the exit value of the 
subprocess is really ($?>> 8 ), and $? & 127 gives which 
signal, if any, the process died from, and $? & 128 reports 
whether there was a core dump.

 
#!perl -w
use strict;use warnings; 

my $rc=system 'jxdDoesNotExist';
print 'rc:'.$rc."\n"; 
ec($?); 
print '$?:'.$?."\n"; 
print '$!:'.$!."\n"; 
print '$^E:'.$^E."\n";

print "\n\ntry2\n"; 
my $rc2=system {'jxdDoesNotExist'} 'jxdDoesNotExist';

print 'rc:'.$rc2."\n"; 
ec($?); 
print '$?:'.$?."\n"; 
print '$!:'.$!."\n"; 
print '$^E:'.$^E."\n";


sub ec { 
my $x=shift; 

print '>>8 :'.($x>>8)."\n"; 
print '&127:'.($x & 127)."\n"; 
print '&128:'.($x & 128)."\n"; 
}

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result: 
'jxdDoesNotExist' is not recognized as an internal or external command
+,
operable program or batch file.
rc:256
>>8 :1
&127:0
&128:0
$?:256
$!:No such file or directory
$^E:


try2
Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at rc.pl line 12.
rc:65280
>>8 :255
&127:0
&128:0
$?:65280
$!:No such file or directory
$^E:The system cannot find the file specified

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so what is 255? 
Net helpmsg 255

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result 
The extended attributes are inconsistent.

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In reply to Re: Why doesn't 'system' return '-1' when a program fails to start on Windows? by huck
in thread Why doesn't 'system' return '-1' when a program fails to start on Windows? by jkahrman

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