At 12:11 PM -0700 2/9/04, Michael Downey wrote:
>I believe I've found another problem with spawned processes under 5.8. If
>more than 2 levels of spawn is performed perl will error out. Here's an
>example:
>
>TEST.PL:
>print "Starting.\n";
>system("perl test1.pl");
>print "Complete.\n");
>
>TEST1.PL:
>print "We are in test1.\n";
>system("perl test2.pl");
>
>TEST2.PL:
>print "We are in test2.\n";
>system("perl test3.pl");
>
>TEST3.PL:
>print "We are in test3.\n";
>
>If you run TEST.PL you will get a failure when TEST2 tries to spawn
>TEST3.pl. If you run TEST1.pl then everything works correctly. I tried
>running this same test on 5.5 of Perl and everything worked correctly. I
>tried looking into the VMS.C to see what was causing the problem but I
>couldn't see what could of been the problem.
>
>Can anyone test this on a more recent version of Perl? I haven't had any
>time to try to convert things over to use the C RTL yet so I don't know if
>this is a problem with the LIB$SPAWN code or something else.
After fixing the typo (extra paren) in test.pl, this works fine for
me with both 5.8.3 and bleadperl:
$ perl test.pl
Starting.
We are in test1.
We are in test2.
We are in test3.
Complete.
What error do you see, exactly?
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