Anybody know why the print statement is executed in this snippet? Somehow the 'die "ERROR:' statement doesn't actually die:

> perl -e 'use warnings FATAL => qw(all); eval { open(CMD, "_bad_exe_ a b c|") or die "open failed: $!\n" }; if($@){ die "ERROR: $@" }; print "HOW DID I GET HERE?\n"; while(<CMD>){}'
ERROR: Can't exec "_bad_exe_": No such file or directory at -e line 1.
HOW DID I GET HERE?

The snippet works as expected if you remove 'use warnings FATAL => qw(all)' or say 'no warnings qw(exec)' inside the eval block. This happens with Perl 5.8.8 and Perl 5.10.0.

In reply to Weird use warnings FATAL behavior by jneil

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