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. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
