Re: Where do i look up return status codes?
| From: | Simon Garner | Date: | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:06:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Where do i look up return status codes? | ||
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From: "George Herson" <gherson@snet.net>
> How do i find out what the return status of an exec() executed command
> means? For example, i have the line
>
> $ciphertext = exec("perl /home/httpd/cgi-bin/passgen.pl
> $plaintext",$arr,$retstat);
>
> which makes $retstat = 126.
>
> thanks,
> geo
>
That's the return code from passgen.pl. Fortunately being a Perl script you
can just open it up and look for an exit(126) line. Otherwise you'll need
some docs for the program you're exec()ing.