Re: Re: Illegal seek error for system()

Actually..I am saving the error in a logfile as:

system() failed: $? $!

Why am I getting these errors? Where can I look them up?

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Re: Re: Re: Illegal seek error for system() by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 18, 2001 at 19:32 UTC
$! isn't reliable after a system(). The 512 means that the called program returned 512>>8, or 2. So look at the called program's manual page or other documentation, and find out what would make it exit with an error 2.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Illegal seek error for system() by P0w3rK!d (Pilgrim) on Jul 19, 2001 at 22:36 UTC
I switched over to using exec for now. I have received a numerous amount of errors using system(). Thank you.	[reply]