stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley) (04/24/91)
Hey all. I am having a problem with the MS-DOS version of perl. The version is: This is perl, version 3.0 $Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.9 90/11/10 01:53:26 lwall Locked $ Patch level: 41 The problem is that when I use the system() function, at some time later the program crashes and locks the system (a reboot is needed). I have seen this both with and without exe swapping. The lockup occurs after the system() has completed, and after the perl program has run for a few more lines. I have set EXESWAP to ".off" (and have gotten a memory map that shows that perl is still in memory), and with it set to a ramdisk (with the directory listing that shows the swap file there) with the same results. Is this a known problem, and is there a workaround? Also, I am looking for the library described in the Nutshell book. Would someone provide an ftp site that has this (and the directory it is in), please?
harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison) (06/01/91)
How can I make the system() call use [kc]shell instead of /bin/sh?
I am currently doing system("ksh -c \"cmd\"");
Thanks in advance,
Mark.
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| above address. Sorry for the inconvenience.tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (06/01/91)
From the keyboard of harrison@csl.dl.nec.com (Mark Harrison):
:How can I make the system() call use [kc]shell instead of /bin/sh?
:I am currently doing system("ksh -c \"cmd\"");
That's really all you can do. You do *NOT* want it to use csh,
because then you'd lose a lot of functionality, and you can't be
sure it'll be installed either.
--tom
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