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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 3a345aa2f4..9f95bb04cf 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -6474,6 +6474,9 @@ C<qx//>, as described in L<perlop/"`STRING`">. Return value of -1 indicates a failure to start the program or an error of the wait(2) system call (inspect $! for the reason). +If you'd like to make C<system> (and many other bits of Perl) die on error, +have a look at the L<autodie> pragma. + Like C<exec>, C<system> allows you to lie to a program about its name if you use the C<system PROGRAM LIST> syntax. Again, see L</exec>. @@ -6486,8 +6489,8 @@ value. system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?" -You can check all the failure possibilities by inspecting -C<$?> like this: +If you'd like to manually inspect C<system>'s failure, u can check all +possible failure modes by inspecting C<$?> like this: if ($? == -1) { print "failed to execute: $!\n"; |