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: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:27:12 +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 Message-ID: <3BA929D0.15327.2F5FE81C@localhost> 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, 17:10: >Hello again, > > That was quick... > >>What is your perl summary (perl-V)? > > Please see attached... Yep, that is o.k. >>What is pwd? > > Hey, you've at least got to give me credit for not falling into that >trap... :-) > > /usr/bin/perl -e '$x=system("wc",".bashrc");$y=system("wc < >.bashrc");print"$x $y $!\n";' > produces > 5 14 93 .bashrc > 0 -1 No such file or directory Strange. Me have (as expected from this nice onliner: $ /usr/bin/perl -e '$x=system("wc",".bashrc");$y=system("wc <.bashrc");print"$x $y $!\n";' 211 539 6250 .bashrc 211 539 6250 0 0 What about permissions? 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/