Just what good are those going to do?

The $? is the same as the pid returned by open2.

$^E is a system-wide variable which can be set by any program running in the system (I'm on Windows remeber?). It's value is persistent across processes until somebody sets it to a new value (by causing some error). I cannot rely on that to check wether the call to open2 succeded or not. Also, $^E is never "reseted" or "unseted".

The reality is that if open2 failes, no exception will be thrown and there is no way check for failure (until I actually try to read/write on those pipes, of course).

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

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