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Hi,

Frank D. Cringle wrote:
> > It means "I'm smarter than 'perl -w'".   Perl assumes that everything
> > after an exec() line must be an error, while I know that exec() can fail
> > under certain circumstances, and have added some code that will report the
> > error...
> 
> "To suppress this warning, put the exec() in a block by itself." (perldiag).
> 
> { exec "echo hallo" }
> print "Shucks.  Process table is full\n";

Ah.  Perl *is* smarter than I am, I just didn't realize yet :-)

Will do that.  Thanks for pointing out.

> Alternatively...
>  
> exec "echo hallo";
> die "exec failed: $!\n";
> 
> (perl doesn't complain if the next statement ist a die()).

die won't do, I have to use a well-defined return code, otherwise the
main faxrunqd won't realize what happened.

gert
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