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Having used the new Perl 5.10, I was shocked to find this new variable after months of use: 
${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}

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This variable gives the native status returned by the last pipe close, backtick command, successful call to wait() or waitpid(), or from the system() operator. See perlrun for details. (Contributed by Gisle Aas.)

New internal variables

Finally!.. what else can I say?

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