Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:43:11 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:27:29 +0200
> 
> This sounded like it might provide a fix for the Perl problems that
> were apparently caused by the closing of stdaux and stdprn.

Unless stdprn/stdaux are closed after the script starts running (which
I think is not the case), I find it hard to believe that this could
have anything to do with Perl's problems.

> Unfortunately, this seems not to be the case; I rebuilt perl 5.7.2
> with the current CVS libc (and with libc's popen/pclose instead of the
> local version in Perl's djgpp.c) - spawned subprograms still have the
> same issues unless I disable the closing of stdaux and stdprn.

May I suggest, once again, to step with a debugger into the affected
code and see what exactly fails there, and how?  It can't be terribly
hard to find the problem, or at least come up with some information
that will allow to guess what might be the reason.