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in thread How to know the status of a command invoked by open function?

See this from Perl.The.Complete.Reference.2nd.Edition.2001

The close function, on the other hand, picks up any errors generated by
the executed process because it monitors the return value received from the child
process via wait (see the “Creating Child Processes” section, later in this chapter).
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Re^4: How to know the status of a command invoked by open function?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 16, 2011 at 00:56 UTC
    Yes, I'm well aware of how it works.