Re^3: System, exec different behaviour with spaces

What I still don't get is why the behaviour is OK when using system, but not exec.

Perhaps you didn't notice, but that is what I asked :)

Though, at this point, i don't really care what the answer is :)

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Re^4: System, exec different behaviour with spaces by sacambs (Initiate) on Jan 12, 2012 at 11:49 UTC
I did go through that thread, but kind of got lost on the way. If I'm reading it right the answer was 'it's probably something odd ActiveState have done to their version of the codebase' (unless they've compiled with odd settings for wait timers - which I wouldn't rule out given the daft settings they use for randbits). I guess my immediate fix is to use system and put up with having the perl process hang around longer than it needs to. Thanks for the help.	[reply]

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Re^4: System, exec different behaviour with spaces
by sacambs (Initiate) on Jan 12, 2012 at 11:49 UTC

I did go through that thread, but kind of got lost on the way. If I'm reading it right the answer was 'it's probably something odd ActiveState have done to their version of the codebase' (unless they've compiled with odd settings for wait timers - which I wouldn't rule out given the daft settings they use for randbits).

I guess my immediate fix is to use system and put up with having the perl process hang around longer than it needs to.

Thanks for the help.

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