ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Kubaitis) (06/07/90)
While porting a perl application from a Sequent Symmetry to a Convex,
discovered that on our Convex, exec and system ignore PATH items with a
hyphenated element. For example, system("myproc") fails if myproc is
in /myfs/my-sub/bin but works if myproc is in /myfs/mysub/bin (with PATH
set accordingly.) Fully qualified names, system("/myfs/my-sub/bin/myproc"),
work.
Our perl is at patchlevel 18 and was compiled with gcc 1.3.7. (Same on the
Sequent which doesn't exhibit this problem.) Our Convex OS is 7.0.1.11.
Anybody out there seen similar problems or have a conjecture as to what is
going on?
Thanks
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Ed Kubaitis (ejk@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu)
Computing Services Office - University of Illinois, Urbana