Re^2: Another eval $@ question

system("$command"); will never thrown an exception for eval {} to catch.

Yes and no:

$ perl -we'$SIG{CHLD} = sub { die "whoa there" }; eval { system("true"
+) }; print "!$@!"'
!whoa there at -e line 1.
!
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Re^3: Another eval $@ question by ambrus (Abbot) on Oct 13, 2006 at 11:17 UTC
That's a bit like exercise 8 in Re: How's your Perl? (II), isn't it?	[reply]