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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 20:05:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Jepson <bjepson AT oreilly DOT com>
X-Sender: bjepson AT sol DOT east DOT ora DOT com
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.3.2: Perl script called via system() uses Windows filenames
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The attached patch (against perl-5.6.1-1-src.tar.gz from the contrib/perl
directory) fixes this problem.  Without the patch, pp_system would use
either do_aspawn() or do_spawn() instead of vfork().

Cheers,

Brian


On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Brian Jepson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running cygwin 1.3.2 on Windows 2000.  I have one script that wants to
> call another using system().  When I do this, the second script switches
> into using Windows filenames.  Here is the  first script:
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/perl
>   system("/home/Administrator/foo.pl");
> 
> and the second script:
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/perl
>   print $0, "\n";
> 
> The output I get when I run /home/Administrator/foo.pl is:
> 
>   /home/Administrator/foo.pl
> 
> However, when I run the first script, I get this:
> 
>   C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\foo.pl
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> 

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