Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> =head2 Cheating Is Still Possible
>
> Not ignoring the return value is of course no guarantee of doing
> anything useful with the return value:
>
> $so_what++ unless defined fork();
>
> But detecting whether 'something useful' is done is squarely in
> the realm of heavy AI.
As with all strictures, it may be lexically disabled:
{
no strict 'system'; # I know what I'm doing
open STDERR, ">>log/$0"; # if ./log doesn't exist, don't open
}
# check syscalls again
This is the stylistically correct way to ignore the return value of a
system call.
Jon
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