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in thread exec vs. system

Ah, so you probably are on Windows. At least I never heard of system(1,...) being sensible syntax, so probably this is an extension in your windows perl dialect

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Re^4: exec vs. system
by jpl (Monk) on Jul 07, 2011 at 18:00 UTC
    I never heard of system(1,...) being sensible syntax, so probably this is an extension in your windows perl dialect.
    It would be sensible syntax if there were a command named "1" that ran its arguments on processor 1 in the background. I have to hope this is what's going on. Tampering with perl syntax would be too ugly to contemplate.
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