From: LRN <lrn1986@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5508093A.2050703@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150317105132.GP6096@calimero.vinschen.de>
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On 17.03.2015 13:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Tried cygwin1-20150317.dll, the bug is fixed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-17 11:00 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
2015-03-17 12:05 ` LRN [this message]
2015-03-17 13:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-03-17 12:09 ` Achim Gratz
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