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Id: 15059
Status: resolved
Worked: 2 hours (120 min)
Priority: 0/
Queue: POE

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: hachi [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.32
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: calling system() from within POE may or may not return the result code properly.
I have committed a test to cvspoe which invokes the problem. Somehow when $SIG{CHLD} is set to 'IGNORE' a call to system() which successfully executes may return -1.