OK, no real problem, misunderstanding on my part.
Shell functions called by perl do send their output to the screen,
or stdout - they send it to the perl script. That was my misunderstanding.
That is to say :
#!/usr/bin/perl
`echo "testing"`;
will not have the desired effect, but :
#!/usr/bin/perl
$val=`echo "testing"`;
print $val;
will.
Bit of a gotcha, didn't realise it.
Thanks, for your comments, Gus - tried some other kernel versions, and
then figured out what was going on.
Cheers,
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