On 8/7/07, Sumit Sahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am running into a strange problem when running perl on
> Windows. Basically, the 'system' command seems to be
> exitting abruptly. I traced it down and found that this
> problem occurs only when the PATH variable is too long (Yet
> to define how long is too long but the common observation is
> around 6000 characters ) and when another variable is set to be
> the same as PATH. Under such an environment, when I run a perl
> script containing just the following :
> system("echo hello");
>
> the system command just doesnt seem to work. I am using
> perl-5.6.0.623.
> Is there a limit on the length of an environment variable or
> the total number of environment variables ? Perl is used
> heavily in our field and I have been running into these
> problems since a long time, therefore any
> pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Unfortunately, I cannot duplicate your problem. Does this script run
correctly on your system?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
$ENV{OTHER} = $ENV{PATH};
for my $i (1 .. 100) {
$ENV{PATH} .= sprintf ";c:\\winxp\\%050d", $i;
$ENV{OTHER} .= sprintf ";c:\\winxp\\%050d", $i;
my $len = length $ENV{PATH};
system "echo $i is $len >> bar.txt";
}
If so, then please modify it until it demonstrates your issue and we will
try to find a solution for you.
