From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317105132.GP6096@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5507768E.20108@gmail.com>
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On Mar 17 03:34, LRN wrote:
> How to reproduce:
> 1) create a shell script (say, /usr/bin/shellscript) containing this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo ${0##*/}
>
> 2) create a symlink (say, /usr/bin/asymlink) that points to shellscript
>
> 3) create a perl script (say, /usr/bin/perlscript) containing this:
>
> #! /usr/bin/perl -w
> system '/usr/bin/asymlink';
>
> 4) run /usr/bin/perlscript
>
> Expected results:
> "asymlink" should be echoed by the shellscript when it is run by perlscript
>
> Actual results:
> "shellscript" is echoed instead
>
> This affects 1.7.35.
Thanks for the report. I applied a fix for that and uploaded new
snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Could you please try them and report back?
Thanks,
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-17 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-17 4:52 LRN
2015-03-17 10:50 ` Achim Gratz
2015-03-17 11:00 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-03-17 12:05 ` LRN
2015-03-17 13:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-03-17 12:09 ` Achim Gratz
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