On Okt 11 2019, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 10/10/19 3:28 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> Perhaps Perl on Solaris does some magic >> to convert this non-standard behavior into standard behavior. > > Yes, I think it's something along those lines. POSIX doesn't specify how > signal numbers and exit statuses are shoehorned into the 'int' status > updated by waitpid; apps are supposed to use WEXITSTATUS etc. to retrieve > the info from that 'int'. I think that Perl tries to standardize this so > that Perl apps just one way to shoehorn.
The format is documented in perlvar(1). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
