Re: Changes in process spawning break perl system() function

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 17 14:00, LRN wrote:
> On 17.03.2015 13:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 17 03:34, LRN wrote:
> >> How to reproduce:
> >> 1) create a shell script (say, /usr/bin/shellscript) containing this:
> >>
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> echo ${0##*/}
> >>
> >> 2) create a symlink (say, /usr/bin/asymlink) that points to shellscript
> >>
> >> 3) create a perl script (say, /usr/bin/perlscript) containing this:
> >>
> >> #! /usr/bin/perl -w
> >> system '/usr/bin/asymlink';
> >>
> >> 4) run /usr/bin/perlscript
> >>
> >> Expected results:
> >> "asymlink" should be echoed by the shellscript when it is run by perlscript
> >>
> >> Actual results:
> >> "shellscript" is echoed instead
> >>
> >> This affects 1.7.35.
> > 
> > Thanks for the report.  I applied a fix for that and uploaded new
> > snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> > 
> > Could you please try them and report back?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Tried cygwin1-20150317.dll, the bug is fixed.

Thanks for testing!


Corinna

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