I'm trying to capture the exit status of a spawned process. The script conf.pl executes and I inserted a fault, so when all is well it returns 0 and with fault it returns 13
$? returns 0 even it there is a fault. Any thoughts? 
use Run;
my $cfg_test = "conf_ini";
my $cfg_stat = "fresh";

my $system_call = '/test/conf.pl';
$pid = spawn $system_call, $cfg_test, $cfg_stat  or die "spawn: $!";
push @pids, $pid;
      
    my $num_proc1 = @pids;
       while ($num_proc1) {
    for ( my $i=0; $i< @pids; $i++) {
     waitpid($pids[$i],0);
     $num_proc1 --;
         $pid --;
        }
    print "DOES THIS -- $? -- CAPTURE ANYTHING\n";

  if ( $system_call >> 8, 0,       'Normal exit' ){
    print "good\n";}
  if( $exit >> 8, 42,             'Non-zero exit' ){
    print "bad\n";}
        
    if ($? == 13) {
    print "failed: $!\n";
    }
    elsif ($? & 127) {
      print "$pid died with signal $?\n",
        ($? & 127),  ($? & 128) ? 'with' : 'without';
    }
    elsif ($? > 0) {
      print "$pid died with signal $?\n";    
    }
    else {
        print "$pid exited with value $?\n", $? >> 8;
    }

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