I would, but the preference here is to get as much on the OS and outside of perl as possible, the way the filter driver works is it processes system calls differently than perl options.
I am in the directory I think I am, that much I know as I have debugged that previously, I thought the same thing but nope I am there. I can see the result of some of the calls, so I know they happen, but somehow system is returning a failure that's getting caught with die.