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From: stanley@phoenix.com (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: system() problem/perl library
Message-ID: <03TV11w163w@phoenix.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 20:33:56 EDT
Organization: Mad Scientist


   Hey all. I am having a problem with the MS-DOS version of perl. The 
version is:

   This is perl, version 3.0
   $Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.9 90/11/10 01:53:26 lwall Locked $
   Patch level: 41                                             

The problem is that when I use the system() function, at some time later
the program crashes and locks the system (a reboot is needed). I have
seen this both with and without exe swapping. The lockup occurs after
the system() has completed, and after the perl program has run for a few
more lines. I have set EXESWAP to ".off" (and have gotten a memory map
that shows that perl is still in memory), and with it set to a ramdisk
(with the directory listing that shows the swap file there) with the same
results.

   Is this a known problem, and is there a workaround? 

   Also, I am looking for the library described in the Nutshell book.
Would someone provide an ftp site that has this (and the directory it
is in), please?