From: Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Penalty for immature language (PERL/BASH)
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:34:39 +0000
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

[snip]

> The next version of the DJGPP library changes the way `system' handles
> such files, because the current behavior is a bit unsafe, as you
> learned from this example.  The modified `system' will not find
> `poo.pl' unless you actually mention the .pl extension.  But I imagine
> even the new code will crash if you say `poo.pl` in a Perl program,
> and `poo.pl' doesn't have the "#!/usr/local/perl" on its first line.

Thank you very much for the explanation of the problem. The behaviour of
the new system() sounds good. But if poo (without extension) were run from
PERL as `poo`, would the underlying call to system() still find poo.exe,
poo.com and whatever other programs one would expect to work without an
extension?

-- 
Daniel Barker.