$^E was reset on the second read, and contained ".\r\n" at the end.
after 5.005_53:
+ Would segfault system()ing non-existing program;
+ AOUT build was hosed;
warning-test for getpriority() might lock the system hard on
pre-fixpak22 configuration (calling getpriority() on
non-existing process triggers a system-wide bug).
it is incremented by the number of messages retrieved.
Dies with "QUITing..." if WM_QUIT message is obtained.
+after 5.005_54:
+ Opening pipes from/to processes could fail if (un)appropriate
+ combination of STDIN/STDOUT was closed.
+
+ If the only shell-metachars of a command are ' 2>&1' at the
+ end of a command, it is executed without calling the external shell.