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At 11:46 AM 10/27/00 +0200, you wrote:
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 >I'm not sure this is the correct way of testing this.  The original
 >command invoked ECHO differently ("echo #foo|"), which might be
 >invoking the shell in some subtly different way, e.g. because it
 >redirects the standard handles.  I think you need to test the
 >interactive/non-interactive aspect in the same way.

I will isolate the failing perl test code and test it separately on 
both DJGPP and Linux and see if I can generate more info.  As you said 
in an earlier note, we need to know how it is that perl does this in 
*ix environments to see what path we need to take.

BTW, the DJGPP perl "popen"/"pclose" wrapper/substitutes that Laszlo 
pointed me to use system() exclusively for the command execution, both 
for read and write pipes.  But the wrapper also uses dup/dup2 on stdout 
(for read pipes) or stdin (for write pipes) around the calls to 
system().  So DJGPP perl is using strictly system(), and now I need to 
find out what perl uses elsewhere.  And maybe what a *ix popen/pclose 
really use.

More as I discover it.
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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org OR
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