Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:22:55 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> Well, I did some more code reading yesterday, and the PerlProc_popen 
> procedure defined inside perl definitely uses 'exec("sh -c command")' 
> to run the command.  I'm going to try to figure out how to use or copy 
> the perl code

Before you copy that code, I'd suggest to make sure that invoking Bash 
with "sh -c" indeed removes the special meaning of #.

> The code I saw is 
> deliberately bypassed for DJGPP with "#if !defined(DJGPP)" (among other 
> systems).

This might have been done for good reasons, which far outweigh the 
problems with the little gork that started this thread.