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I feel that I should be able to figure this one out, but am hitting a brick wall.

Why does the following give me rc=-1, and if I comment out $SIG{CHLD} then rc=0?

Thanks

-Craig

update: I believe I'm asking the same question that I asked a while ago (although I was using backticks then). Results do seem to vary based on platform. Should this be reported as a perl bug, or do I just need to parse out the reason for the -1 return from $!, as the docs state (thanks Bloodnok++) 

use English;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

# Comment this out and rc=0...
$SIG{CHLD} = sub { _lostChild(wait()) };

sub _lostChild { print "_lostChild args:\n", Dumper(\@_), "\n" };

my $rc=system('date');
print STDERR "rc=$rc\n";

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In reply to system() returns -1 with $SIG{CHLD}? by cmv

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