Hi, all. I've been wrestling with this problem for a few hours now, and it seems to be a little beyond my reach. $0 seems not to work for me in Perl 5.8.0, whereas it works fine in an identically configured Perl 5.6.(0|1): 
[ strider@isengard[pts/3] (16:07) ~/old-homedir ]
% perl5.8.0 -e '$0 = "blork"; system( "ps -auxw" ); ' | grep blork 
strider   2561  0.0  0.4  2632 1036 pts/3    S    16:07   0:00 perl5.8
+.0 -e $0 = "blork"; system( "ps -auxw" ); 
strider   2563  0.0  0.1  1400  436 pts/3    S    16:07   0:00 grep bl
+ork

[ strider@isengard[pts/3] (16:07) ~/old-homedir ]
% perl5.6.1 -e '$0 = "blork"; system( "ps -auxw" ); ' | grep blork 
strider   2564  0.0  0.3  2448  968 pts/3    S    16:07   0:00 blork
strider   2566  0.0  0.1  1400  436 pts/3    S    16:07   0:00 grep bl
+ork

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So we know the platform supports setting the program name with $0; I've even tested with a C program, which worked fine (and was compiled with the same compiler used for 5.8.0). The only difference seems to be the Perl version. perlvar and perlfaq8 both agree that 5.8.0 still supports $0.

Does anyone have any ideas?

In reply to $0 Problems by strider corinth

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