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From: a@9srv.net
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Odd awk system() behavior on 9vx
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:30:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19579c32de0be369d78e701d4fafa1c6@9srv.net> (raw)

The following snippet works properly on native Plan 9 (and unix).
On 9vx, however:

:; awk '{system("echo "$0" | cat")}' words
sh: cat: cannot execute - Access denied
sh: cat: cannot execute - Access denied

Errors repeat until I kill the thing (or, presumably, words is out of
lines, but I won't wait that long). Putting anything else in cat's place,
like sum, gives the same results. Of course, cat (or whatever) works
fine on its own.

Any idea what's going on?




             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-29 13:30 a [this message]
2008-10-29 14:05 ` Fernan Bolando

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