Garth Winter Webb wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 12:57, Robert Landrum wrote:
>
>>>That's is very weird, because this code doesn't seem to work:
>>>
>>>perl -e 'system("perl", " -e1") == 0 or die "oops"'
>>>
>>Actually, that's not all that weird. Most shells take care of
>>stripping out garbage before setting the argument list. Since
>>system(LIST) doesn't use the shell, it's passing perl the literal "
>>-e1" which perl won't recognize as a command line option (and
>>correctly so in my opinion).
>>
>
>Actually this isn't standard behavior. I can't think of a situation
>where I would want to use system to concatanate a string for me rather
>than interpreting the string as an argument and act accordingly. If you
>check 'perldoc -f system', this is exactly what system is supposed to do
>when given a program name and a list of arguments, so it looks like
>'systetm' may be buggy in the win32 version of perl
>
>G
>
I think so too. I,m no Perl guru, but I know from my personal
experiance that it works fine under unix and cygwin, but I _always_ have
had to manually do this under normal Win32 (I know, I know, I never
submitted a patch... I guess the reason was because I never [finally]
compiled mod_perl for Win32 and had enough strength left to diff the
Makefiles... :-( )
Issac
