Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: "Lehr, Matt (GEA, 510425)" Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:29:50 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Cygwin Perl system() Invokes exec() Directly? Reply-to: gp@familiehaase.de CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3BA91C5E.29187.2F2B61DD@localhost> In-reply-to: <3DC3FF95C367D411B47E00D0B73E4B38F80847@ap3expr8applge.appl.ge.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) X-Hops: 1 X-Sender: 320081107336-0001@t-dialin.net 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 -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/