Re: "system" long commands and stderr redirection.

Craig A. Berry wrote:

> The way I see the problem is that we are running the command under
> the wrong shell (DCL instead of bash).  One possibility here would be
> to have Perl detect whether it is running under bash and if it is,
> then prepend bash to the command for system(), exec(), and backtick
> operations.
That would be looking at the environment variable "SHELL" and using it's 
value if it is present.  If it is not present, fall back to the current 
behavior.
> Better yet, if there were some way to make bash a true-blue CLI from
> a VMS standpoint, then lib$spawn would automatically use whatever CLI
> is in use by the parent.  That's out of my league and I have no idea
> how possible or difficult that would be.
I do not know either.  I do not think that making it a true CLI is high 
on the current priority lists.  Bash currently uses DCL in a fallback 
mode, and so it would have to be able to detect if DCL was not there. 
It may already be able to do that.
-John
wb8tyw@xxxxxxx
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