From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1d5d51400810290705q5869efdfuc5e637d08241abd1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:05:53 +0800 From: "Fernan Bolando" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <19579c32de0be369d78e701d4fafa1c6@9srv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <19579c32de0be369d78e701d4fafa1c6@9srv.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Odd awk system() behavior on 9vx Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2a6a4f58-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I think that is related to an old thread. Andrey suggested to rebuild ape. That was how I was able to fix it. On 10/29/08, a@9srv.net wrote: > 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? > > > -- http://www.fernski.com