Why do you expect open2 to die? 
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
}
warn "HELLO BUDDY";
__END__
'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
HELLO BUDDY at - line 13.

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Some RTFM is in order on your part (`perldoc IPC::Open2').

update: whoooops. I see why you thought that. But still, you should be checking the pid. open2() returns the process ID of the child process. It doesn't return on failure: it just raises an exception matching /^open2:/. However, exec failures in the child are not detected. You'll have to trap SIGPIPE yourself.

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