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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp@familiehaase.de>
To: "Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)" <MATT.LEHR@APPL.GE.COM>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Perl system() Invokes exec() Directly?
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA91C5E.29187.2F2B61DD@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DC3FF95C367D411B47E00D0B73E4B38F80847@ap3expr8applge.appl.ge.com>

Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425) schrieb am 2001-09-19, 15:40:

Hi Matt,

> Seems like the Cygwin perl system() function calls exec() directly
>rather than passing the command to the shell?
>
> For example:
>
> Under Cygwin perl:
>  /usr/bin/perl -e '$x=system("wc < .bashrc");print"$x $!\n";'
> produces the output:
>  -1 No such file or directory

It does it for me:

$ /usr/bin/perl -e '$x=system("wc < .bashrc");print"$x $!\n";'
    211     539    6250
0

What is your perl summary (perl-V)?
What is pwd?

> Under ActiveState perl:
>  /cygdrive/e/Perl/bin/perl -e '$x=system("wc <
>.bashrc");print"$x $!\n";'
> produces the output (as expected):
>  5	14	93
>  0
>
> Thanks for your efforts...  Version information appears below...

Gerrit


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  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-19 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-19 12:41 Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)
2001-09-19 13:30 ` Gerrit P. Haase [this message]
2001-09-19 14:11 Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)
2001-09-19 14:19 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-09-19 14:39 Gerrit P. Haase
2001-09-19 14:59 Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)
2001-09-19 23:34 ` David Starks-Browning

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