in reply to system() and use POSIX on cygwin

Can you give a short example that reproduces the problem?

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Re: Re: system() and use POSIX on cygwin
by deekoo (Initiate) on Feb 10, 2004 at 16:48 UTC
    either of
    use POSIX; system('whatever');
    or
    use POSIX; fork();
    will do it.
      perl -we'use POSIX; system "sleep 10000"'
      works for me; does it for you? What version of cygwin? Did you build perl yourself or is this the cygwin binary? If built yourself, what's perl -V:config_args or what other changes did you make?

      Can anyone else with cygwin on win98 try the above use posix/sleep?