Re: This turned out not to be the disaster I expected

It would call dump since that's the first command it would come across that would force an exit. Next up would be exec and exit.

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Re^2: This turned out not to be the disaster I expected by kyle (Abbot) on Jun 06, 2007 at 19:45 UTC
Actually, it looks as if exec does not do the job. I get "foo" from: `perl -le '$x="exec";eval $x;print "foo";'` [download] Not so for dump and exit.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: This turned out not to be the disaster I expected by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jun 06, 2007 at 19:50 UTC
... and takes a breather at getc No exit with exec though. perldoc exec only mentions `exec LIST exec PROGRAM LIST` [download]	[reply] [d/l]