Is my Perl script grabbing environment variabless from "someplace else"?
- by Michael Wilson
On a Solaris box in a "mysterious production system" I'm running a Perl script that references an environment variable. No big deal.
The contents of that variable from the shell both pre- and post-execution are what I expect.
However, when reported by the script, it appears as though it's running in some other sub-shell which is clobbering my…