That is, as I keep having to state, an error in perl's handling of Win32 exit codes.

You really don't and should stop. I heard you the first three times, and I agreed with you every time. I haven't said anything to contradict this. Quite the opposite, I showed how it's true.

I didn't make any statement about when that reduction occured.

What did you mean by

"The problem is with Perl's handling of Windows return codes. Trying to force fit a 32-bit signed int into an unsigned char doesn't go :)"

if you didn't mean

"The problem is with Perl forcing the Windows exit code into an unsigned char."

That doesn't even occur, so it can't be the problem. Whatever you *meant*, what you *said* was wrong.

In reply to Re^10: Can't spawn "cmd.exe": by ikegami
in thread Can't spawn "cmd.exe": by emalossi

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