On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:45:34AM -0700, Piotr Fusik wrote:
> The problem is that the arguments passed to exec() are not passed
> as they are to the called program, but instead are split on whitespace.
>
> Example:
> perl -e "exec$^X,'-e','print+join+q{,},@ARGV','foo boo bar'"
> prints:
> foo,boo,bar
>
> system() works fine:
> perl -e "system$^X,'-e','print+join+q{,},@ARGV','foo boo bar'"
> prints:
> foo boo bar
<snip>
> Configured by ActiveState at Mon Mar 31 00:45:28 2003.
>
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Thank you for your report.
That's an old version of Perl. Try upgrading and see if the bug is still
present.
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