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From: Neil Lunn <neillunn AT gunz DOT com DOT au>
To: "'Brian Jepson'" <bjepson AT oreilly DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: 1.3.2: Perl script called via system() uses Windows filenames
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 16:44:29 +1000
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Jepson [mailto:bjepson AT oreilly DOT com]
>Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 10:05 AM
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: 1.3.2: Perl script called via system() uses Windows
>filenames
>
>
>
>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().

Whick will actually be fork. But thanks, point taken. It would be greatly
appreciated if you sent this to p5p.

Thanks,
Neil


>
>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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