Re: [ID 20000121.005] System command starting with environment variable on HP-UX

[Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>]

At 16:07 -0800 2000-01-21, Doug Wilson wrote:
>A non zero status is returned from the
>system() function when the supplied command
>begins with an environment variable setting
>where the environment variable contains an
>underscore or a digit.

It's not HP-specific, or 5.005_03-specific.  Here's a one-line fix. 
It's against 5.005_03, as that's what the report's against, but also 
applies to 5.005_63 (with an offset of 184 lines).

--- perl5.005_03/doio.c-as_received	Sat Mar 27 17:57:24 1999
+++ perl5.005_03/doio.c	Sat Jan 22 18:10:15 2000
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ do_exec(char *cmd)
      if (strnEQ(cmd,"exec",4) && isSPACE(cmd[4]))
  	goto doshell;

-    for (s = cmd; *s && isALPHA(*s); s++) ;	/* catch VAR=val gizmo */
+    for (s = cmd; *s && isALNUM_LC(*s); s++) ;	/* catch VAR=val gizmo */
      if (*s == '=')
  	goto doshell;


-- 
Dominic Dunlop

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Follow-Ups from:

Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>

References to:

Doug Wilson <dougw@safeguard.net>

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