[tex-live] texlive perl
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
mpg at elzevir.fr
Thu Apr 22 01:03:30 CEST 2010
T T a écrit :
> Yes, I'm quite familiar by now how those things work in texlua and
> perl. Still, I'm really baffled how those problems can propagate
> farther down to child processes. I started cmd.exe from perl that was
> spawned from texlua and AR9 just wouldn't run from that cmd.exe no
> matter what (nor from any other process started from there).
>
Yeah, that's really amazing. Maybe something with the environment that would
propagate differently using spawn/exec vs execute?
> This is definitely not the quoting problem. I always pay special
> attention to this, because this is such a PITA on Windows.
>
And your experiment with lauching cmd.exe from wrapped-perl and trying to launch
AR from this cmd also proves that (if another proof was needed).
Manuel.
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