Hi All,
I am running into a strange problem when running perl on Windows. Basically,
the 'system' command seems to be exitting abruptly. I traced it down and found
that this problem occurs only when the PATH variable is too long (Yet to define
how long is too long but the common observation is around 6000 characters ) and
when another variable is set to be the same as PATH. Under such an environment,
when I run a perl script containing just the following :
system("echo hello");
the system command just doesnt seem to work. I am using perl-5.6.0.623.
Is there a limit on the length of an environment variable or the total number
of environment variables ? Perl is used heavily in our field and I have been
running into these problems since a long time, therefore any
pointers/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sumit
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