Question about pipes and exit codes

[William Atkinson]

Greetings,

Forgive and politely correct me if this is the wrong list to post to.

I'm having trouble getting the exit status of a process at the end of a pipe
created by open2.  It seems that all I get is notification that the pipe
broke.  

One idea that we came up with was to have a shell script run the desired
program, catch its exit status and return it as the last string.  The
problem with this is that I was hoping for a purely perl based solution due
to cross platform portability issues.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Chip Atkinson
chip at disc.com