Greetings Monks,

I've read about the disadvantages of using IPC::Open2, but in my case it should be ok because, the communicating programs are all written by me and I can make sure that no OS buffering will stand in my way :)

Still, the following code snippet (mostly from perlipc) never raises an exception: 

use strict;
use IPC::Open2;
use Carp;

eval { open2(*RDRFH, *WTRFH, 'xxx'); };
if ($@) { 
    if ($@ =~ /^open2/) {
        warn "open2 failed: $!\n$@\n";
        return;
    }
    die;            # reraise unforeseen exception
}

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That 'xxx' program is of course not there and I would have expected $@ to be set. Instead $@ is empty so I can't do my error handling in this case.

I would appreciate a solution that does not involve additional CPAN modules or a more recent Perl.

My environment is described in the subject line.

Thanks your time.

In reply to IPC::Open2, WinXP, Perl 5.6.1 by mrd

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