Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: fork system() STDOUT redirection on WindowsXP

Aside from the obvious formatting problem, if someone can verify the behaviour change, it would be good to submit a report to p5p. (I can't be that someone - I don't have Windows.)

At a guess this is a bad interaction between PerlIO and the fork() emulation that Perl does on Windows.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: fork system() STDOUT redirection on WindowsXP by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 26, 2003 at 07:05 UTC
Unfortunately, once you've sorted out the formatting you'll see that the "code" isn't a runnable program that anyone could use to test anything, just the op's idea of "all we need to know" which isn't very helpful. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: fork system() STDOUT redirection on WindowsXP
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 26, 2003 at 07:05 UTC

Unfortunately, once you've sorted out the formatting you'll see that the "code" isn't a runnable program that anyone could use to test anything, just the op's idea of "all we need to know" which isn't very helpful.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller

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