On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:35 AM, xiaolan <practicalp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > what's the disadvantage when calling a system command from Perl? > i.e, system call to "rsync" rather than using the File::Rsync module. > is it hard to control the signals between the caller process and the called > system command?
Well, usually using a module you have access to several things in a Perl way, like for instance to the arguments to pass to the command as an hash or an array. instead of a string. Moreover, the perl module could have some workarounds to provide you better portability. Luca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
