confused path

skyworld_chen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: confused path by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 09, 2012 at 08:32 UTC
Can you show some code that demonstrates the issue? FindBin is not related to where system searches for executable files. Does `system $prog1;` run the same programme as `exec $prog1;`? لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: confused path by skyworld_chen (Acolyte) on Oct 10, 2012 at 06:39 UTC
hi, thanks for reply. Let me explain what happened in detail: I need to transfer a simulation package from one internal network to another internal network in company. Though both networks use linux, there are some differences between them, such as tools setting etc. here is a piece of code from one script (I did some substitution to make things simple): `(1) use FindBin; (2) use lib $FindBin::Bin; (3) use dbPrjPath; ## company internal package (4) my $dir = dbPrjPath::prjPath(); #find project path (5) my $prog = $FindBin::Script; (6) exec("$prog @ARGV");` [download] above is the code. suppose code above is prog1. In line (4) a new project path is got. In this new project path there is a same script named prog1. The total code will get new project path and run the script in that path with the same script name "prog1" as line (6) indicates, i.e, runs B/prog1. This works well in original system, but in the other system, code in line (6) always runs A/prog1 so it is a infinite loop, which is a strange thing to me. In order to trace it, I insert a code as this between line (5) and (6) as (5.5) system("which $prog") and it shows B/prog1. I then inserted some debug info to make sure exec("$prog") runs itself. This confused me. so What happened? I confused...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: confused path by parv (Parson) on Oct 10, 2012 at 07:13 UTC
Could you reformat your post so that (long) code snippets do not mix with rest of the text? As it is, it is hard to make sense (of code). In case you missed the formatting tips mentioned before the textarea ... `Use: <p> text here (a paragraph) </p> and: <code> code here </code> to format your post; it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: confused path by skyworld_chen (Acolyte) on Oct 10, 2012 at 12:44 UTC
Re^3: confused path by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2012 at 04:14 UTC
Please post the values of `$dir` & `$prog`. Given those values, tell us where the command to be executed lives. (Nonetheless I will venture into mind reading) By the clue of $Script - basename of script ..., try executing the command with path prefixed as in ... `... $prog = join '/' , $dir , $prog; exec( $prog , ... );` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: confused path by parv (Parson) on Oct 09, 2012 at 09:00 UTC
In what case would $prog1 be different if one instance is run by system() and other by exec()?	[reply]
Re^3: confused path by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 09, 2012 at 09:59 UTC
I cannot imagine. But I cannot imagine how it were possible for `which` and `exec`, either. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: confused path by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 09, 2012 at 10:44 UTC
Re^5: confused path by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2012 at 14:55 UTC
Re: confused path by parv (Parson) on Oct 09, 2012 at 08:30 UTC
Does A directory come before B in $PATH (or equivalent environment setting)? In any case, best to use is an absolute path.	[reply]