At the office we run an AIX ver 5 rel 3 system. We have a Perl script that given its parameters makes a decision on how to call several other programs. One of the programs that it calls is a compiled C program. I was having problems so I investigated and found that an environment variable that is known to the Perl script is not received by the compiled C program. The Perl script uses the Perl 'system' function to run the compiled C program. According to the information I found for AIX the limit of parameters and environment variables is very large for our system, so that is not the problem.

Any ideas as to why an environment variable gets lost when the C program is called ?

In reply to Problem with Perl 'system' comand by bkimelman

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