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Hello,
I'm writing because I seem to be detecting some inconsistencies
between platforms in perls' exit code when die is called. Hope it's the
right list!
I'm getting FAIL on some perls because one of my tests don't pass,
as you can see in:
http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/N/Nagios-Plugin-DieNicely.html
The test that fails is:
# Failed test 'Exit code 9 for ./t/bin/notok_using_die_in_begin.t'
# at t/002_test_outputs.t line 87.
# got: 255
# expected: 9
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 108.
It basically executes a script that uses a module that only has
BEGIN { die 'DIED!!!' }
in it's body. I found the exit code to be 9 (I was really expecting
a 255).
The thing is that on some platforms I get exit code 9 (tests pass)
and on some exit code 255 (tests fail).
I really don't know what the exit code 9 from perl stands for... But
ultimately, it's not behaving in the same manner under different platforms.
Some notes on the test suite: I see that I've declared "use
DieModule;" in the script, but t/lib/DieModule.pm contains the wrong
package name (dumb of me...):
package EvalModule;
BEGIN {
die "DIED!!!";
}
1;
If I alter the package name to DieModule and do
$ perl -MDieModule ; echo 'EXIT' $?
DIED!!! at DieModule.pm line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at DieModule.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
EXIT 9
This last example, if executed on other platforms returns 255
Am I on to something? Or just plain wrong?
Jose Luis Martinez
jlmartinez@capside.com
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