perms on file linux redhat 9 filepro 5.0

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Jun 8 11:12:30 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:37:45PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Bob Stockler cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> | I _never_ said replace bash with ksh. Especialy not in-place.
> | I advise simply to _use_ ksh.
> | IE: install it, as something/bin/ksh, and put #!something/bin/ksh on top of
> | any scripts you write or re-write to be ksh compatible.
> 
> That's good advice, but in the context of using filePro's
> SYSTEM command not of much help, because it uses /bin/sh.

Wishlist item:  PFSHELL - Define which shell interpreter is used for SYSTEM
                          and USER calls.

And yes, you're going to have to drop system() internally and actually use
fork() and exec(), I realise that.  It's worth it, IMHO.

mark->
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