Re: Process exit status

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Re^2: Process exit status by Dirk80 (Pilgrim) on Jul 22, 2011 at 13:54 UTC
Thank you. This post lead me to the following website, which could answer my question. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq8.html#Why-can't-I-get-the-output-of-a-command-with-system()%3f `system` runs a command and returns exit status information (as a 16 bit value: the low 7 bits are the signal the process died from, if any, and the high 8 bits are the actual exit value). The answer to my original question: 16 bits are needed instead of 8 bits because also the signal id which killed the process has to be stored.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Process exit status
by Dirk80 (Pilgrim) on Jul 22, 2011 at 13:54 UTC

Thank you. This post lead me to the following website, which could answer my question.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq8.html#Why-can't-I-get-the-output-of-a-command-with-system()%3f

system runs a command and returns exit status information (as a 16 bit value: the low 7 bits are the signal the process died from, if any, and the high 8 bits are the actual exit value).

The answer to my original question: 16 bits are needed instead of 8 bits because also the signal id which killed the process has to be stored.

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