[tpm] IO::Handle not catching errors

Madison Kelly linux at alteeve.com
Tue May 27 05:46:56 PDT 2008


Indy Singh wrote:
> If the shell process exits with a non-zero status, the return value will
> be found in $?.  You might need to call close first before you check $?.
> 
> A non-zero return code will not be an an IO error.  IO errors are not
> very likely and I'm not sure if it is useful to worry about them.
> 
> An error in starting the shell process will be caught by the open call.
> 
> Indy Singh

Doh!

   I went at this looking for too complex a solution. I will check that 
as soon as I get into the office in a couple hours and report back to 
the list "for the record". Thanks!

Madi


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