At 6:43 PM -0500 6/10/02, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
> > Generally it looks like:
>>
>>     perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" t/basic.t
>>
>
>This returns the expected value of 3:
>
>$ perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
>1..1
>ok 1
>status = %X00000001   mode = 3
>iosb.lo = %X00000001   modelen = 4
>
>Now, why is "MMK TEST" different?  It's still attached to the console.

I think it's not actually.  I think it just writes to a mailbox and
doesn't know anything about the parent's mode.  The SPAWN command
takes the extra step of attaching the terminal to the subprocess, but
that's not what happens with lib$spawn unless you take steps to make
it so.

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