## Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us): > I took a stab at fixing this, but lacking a Windows environment > to test in, I can't be sure if it works. The attached does kinda > sorta work if I run it in a Linux environment --- but I found that > system() doesn't automatically expand "t/*.pl" on Linux. Is that > an expected difference between Linux and Windows perl?
At least the behaviour on Linux (or any unix) is expected: if you pass a list to perl's system(), perl does not run the command under a shell (a shell is only invoked if there's only a scalar argument to system() (or if the list has only one element) and that argument contains shell metacharacters). That's a source of no small amount "fun" for perl programms "shelling out", because "sometimes" there is no shell. Perl's system hase some more caveats, "perldoc -f system" has a starter on that topic. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space
