Re: [Gumstix-users] microperl: system calls are broken

[ken s. <ken...@gm...>]

On 11/24/06, Steve Sakoman <sa...@gm...> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> The fix you mentioned is the one I refered to in my original post!

right. i didn't re-read the whole thread when i built microperl.

in the original post you also wrote:
>> The system call bug is the more troublesome one, there's no simple workaround

so at least we've now documented that there is a simple workaround.

>
> I've verified that this does fix the issue with system calls, including the
> problem with quoted arguments.
>
> For the sake of completeness I also tried the latest version of Perl (
> 5.8.8).  Unpatched, it exhibits the same issues as 5.8.7.
>
> So, for now, the patch is the way to go.

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ken