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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 01:53:35PM -0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:
> > $ perl -l
> > print $$;
> > system 'echo', "$$";
> > system 'echo', $$;
> > 32480
> > 32480
> > 32488
> >
> > The last pid printed (from the system() with unquoted $$) is the pid of
> > the child process, not the one of the parent.
>
> I think this is related to #104084.
It bisects to
commit 0e21945565eb4664d843bb819fb032cedee4d5a6
Author: Max Maischein <corion@corion.net>
Date: Sun May 22 21:36:57 2011 -0700
Turn $$ into a magical readonly variable that always fetches getpid() instead of caching it
The intent is that by not caching $$, we eliminate one opportunity for bugs:
If one embeds Perl or uses XS and calls fork(3) from C, Perls notion of $$
may go out of sync with what getpid() returns. By always fetching the
value of $$ via getpid(), this bug opportunity is eliminated. The overhead
of always fetching $$ should be small and is likely only used for tempfile
creation, which should be dwarfed by file system accesses.
Maybe system() should call get magic on its args *before* forking?
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