# New Ticket Created by Michael G Schwern # Please include the string: [perl #36677] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36677 >
Parrot cannot start up if either STDOUT or STDERR are closed. In both cases it exits with 65. This problem was noticed because ponie (which uses Parrot) would not start up if STDERR was closed. $ perl -wle 'close STDERR; system("parrot --version"); print $? >> 8' 65 $ perl -wle 'close STDOUT; system("parrot --version"); print STDERR $? >> 8' Parrot IO: Failed init layer(unix). 65 $ perl -wle 'system("parrot --version"); print $? >> 8' This is parrot version 0.1.2-devel built for ppc-darwin. Copyright (C) 2001-2005 The Perl Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Parrot may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Parrot source kit. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details. PASM/PIR compiler version 0.1.2. 0 -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>