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Re^4: Restarting a Perl script on Windows 10

by jcb (Parson)
on May 07, 2020 at 23:33 UTC ( [id://11116557]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Restarting a Perl script on Windows 10
in thread Restarting a Perl script on Windows 10

WinDOS uses the DOS model and does not pass arguments to invoked processes, only a "command tail" string that all Windows C runtime libraries parse into argc and argv using some rules or other.

Using wperl as in your example means that $pathToMyself is already being passed as the "command tail" to wperl. Try:

my $argtail = join ' ', @args; exec(qw/wmic process call create/ => "CommandLine='wperl $pathToMyself + $argtail'");

If you are wondering, yes, this does mean that arguments containing whitespace are a problem. Quoting is handled by C runtime library startup code and that can vary from program to program because there is no standard system C runtime library on Windows.

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