[Catalyst] Re: System call problem

[Florent Angly]

Well, after some more fiddling and researching, I figured this problem out.
Using the modified command:
> system(@formatdb_cmd) == 0 or die("Could not run command: 
> @formatdb_cmd\nReturn status: $?\nMessage: $!");
I found out that my error message is:
> No child processes
It turns out that in Catalyst, $SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'. Setting $SIG{CHLD} 
to 'DEFAULT' makes the system() calls return the proper status.
Problem solved...
Florent



Florent Angly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My Catalyst application uses an external Perl module that needs to 
> call an external application using the Perl system() command. This 
> Perl module works fine on its own (no error message when the external 
> app is called). However, whenever used from within my Catalyst 
> application thtough the Catalyst test server, the return status of the 
> system() call is always -1 (failure, success is 0), even though the 
> call seems to be executing just fine (valid output files are produced).
>
> This is the system call:
>>       system(@formatdb_cmd) == 0 or die("Could not run command: 
>> @formatdb_cmd\n$?");
> I tried to implement the system call with IPC::Run, but it just did 
> the same.
>>       IPC::Run::run(\@formatdb_cmd) or die "Could not run command: 
>> @formatdb_cmd\n$?";
> Any idea what is going wrong? Do I need to do something in Catalyst? 
> Should I just ignore the system() return status  (but then I would 
> miss real execution errors)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Florent
>