Re^3: How to make `system` not ignore SIG INT in Perl?

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in thread How to make `system` not ignore SIG INT in Perl?

The added pipe means that there now sits a shell between your program and the child processes. I would assume that the shell does not pass on the exit status of its children.

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Re^4: How to make `system` not ignore SIG INT in Perl? by salva (Canon) on Sep 13, 2011 at 07:50 UTC
It does!: `$ perl -E 'system "sleep 3 \| tail "; say $?' ^C2` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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