Re: Where do i look up return status codes?

for system("perl test.pl", $retval); and exec("perl test.pl", $ary, $retval); the value of $retval is the value that the perl script "test.pl" returns, (not a perl status code). as someone else suggested, go and look for exit(126) statements (or just exit(), if exit returns the value of a variable, and not the constant "126") within the perl script and you'll probably find a little note as to *what* the 126 means... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Carbaugh" <cjtech2000@yahoo.com> To: "George Herson" <gherson@snet.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Where do i look up return status codes? > > I'm not familiar with perl, but I would said either the script it's self > is returning the code, or the perl interpreter. > > Chris > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, George Herson wrote: > > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:13:35 -0500 > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > From: George Herson <gherson@snet.net> > > Subject: [PHP] Where do i look up return status codes? > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >