What's the relationship between Test::Harness, system, and STDERR?

It ignores it completely.

Is this what is causing Test::Harness to fail on a script that passes when run as  perl test.t, ands what can I do get this test running happily w/in the harness?

It sounds like you have tests running out of order. Is your test script forking and both parent an child printing test results? Can you show us your test script and the output (with TEST_VERBOSE) from T::H that's giving you the error. I'd expect to see something like:

...
ok 9
ok 11
ok 10
...

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In reply to Re: test::harness, stderr, and child processes by adrianh
in thread test::harness, stderr, and child processes by water

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