Starting erl using sh -c

Daniel Neri daniel.neri@REDACTED
Wed Oct 25 14:13:54 CEST 2000


Sean Hinde <Sean.Hinde@REDACTED> writes:

> 	erlc starts the emulator using the execvp() call which is broken 
> 	in QNX unless the command is prefixed with sh -c

Broken how? Is this a documented incompatibility?

> From the UNIX prompt "sh -c erl -noinput -s erl_compile compile
> ...etc" just starts a straight emulator - the erl shell script seems
> to lose everything after the erl.

You need to quote the command string (since it contains whitespace):

  $ sh -c 'erl -noinput -s erl_compile compile ...'


Regards,
   --Daniel

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