[9fans] Odd awk system() behavior on 9vx - Plan9

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  1. [9fans] Odd awk system() behavior on 9vx

    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?


  2. Re: [9fans] Odd awk system() behavior on 9vx

    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?
    >
    >
    >


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