here's the bare bone of my code which forks the child process. I also added some debug messages.

===

sub fork_job
{
    my $job  = shift;
    my $system_fail = 0;
    system( "ls . " ) == 0 ||
                print "system failed before forking\n"

    my $pid = fork();

    if( !defined( $pid ) ) { # bad, bad, error
          return 0;
    } elsif ($pid != 0) {        # parent
          return $pid;
    } elsif ($pid == 0) {   # $child
          system( "ls . " ) == 0 ||
               print "system failed after forking(1)\n";
          $> = $job->{'uid'};
          $< = $job->{'uid'};
          system( "ls . " ) == 0 ||
               print "system failed after forking(2)\n";

          setpgrp(0, $$);
          system( "ls . " ) == 0 ||
              print "system failed after forking(3)\n";

          ## doesn't exec, but continues on
          my $runner = Runner->new( $job );
          $runner->run();
          exit 1;
     }
}

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It seems that any system() call fails after setpgrp( 0, $$ ). Is setpgrp() an issue on solaris?

In reply to Re: system() call failure by lestrrat
in thread system() call failure by lestrrat

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