Re: setuid system() calls on Solaris 11

[dave_the_m]

system() only invokes the shell if it has a single arg containing metachars (so it's relying on the shell to parse the command line). If you do that processing yourself, perl will execute the command directly. For example, change this first line to the second line:

system "foo -x 'a b' -y bar";
system "foo", "-x", "a b", "-y", "bar";

Dave.

[afoken]

See also The problem of "the" default shell for the interactions of system and its friends with the default shell.

Alexander