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Re: [perl #123775] Args to 'system' not evaluated before forking,making $$ wrong

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Ricardo Signes
Date:
February 13, 2015 13:18
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Re: [perl #123775] Args to 'system' not evaluated before forking,making $$ wrong
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20150213131841.GA21215@cancer.codesimply.com
* Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> [2015-02-11T06:28:48]
> I suspect that evaluating in the parent is The Right Thing to Do, but
> worry about backwards compatibility.

Same here.  We could try making this change in 5.23, but my further worry is
that code that would be affected by this is not going to be tested CPAN code,
but private daemons hidden away.  :-/

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rjbs
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