ikiwiki-mass-rebuild: Don't trust $! when setting $)

A better fix, just check that what $) returns is what it was asked to set,
and ignore $! entirely.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 788d4b44a..1f24f7530 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ikiwiki (2.49) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * haiku: Generate valid xhtml.
-  * ikiwiki-mass-rebuild: under $! before setting $) to avoid strange errno issue
+  * ikiwiki-mass-rebuild: Don't trust $! when setting $)
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 30 May 2008 19:08:54 -0400
 
diff --git a/ikiwiki-mass-rebuild b/ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
index 0057beb4f..b40eb0b3b 100755
--- a/ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
+++ b/ikiwiki-mass-rebuild
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ sub processline {
 	if (! $pid) {
 		my ($uuid, $ugid) = (getpwnam($user))[2, 3];
 		my $grouplist=join(" ", $ugid, $ugid, supplemental_groups($user));
-		undef $!;
-		$)=$grouplist;
-		if ($!) {
+		if (($)=$grouplist) ne $grouplist) {
 			die "failed to set egid $grouplist: $!";
 		}
 		$(=$ugid;