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Did you run your programs with C<-w> switch? See
L<Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl>.
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Do you try to run I<internal> shell commands, like C<`copy a b`>
(internal for F<cmd.exe>), or C<`glob a*b`> (internal for ksh)? You
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Since L<flock(3)> is present in EMX, but is not functional, it is
emulated by perl. To disable the emulations, set environment variable
C<USE_PERL_FLOCK=0>.
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Here is the list of things which may be "broken" on
EMX (from EMX docs):
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Note that C<kill -9> does not work with the current version of EMX.
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Since F<sh.exe> is used for globing (see L<perlfunc/glob>), the bugs
of F<sh.exe> plague perl as well.
For the details of the current situation with calling external programs,
see L<Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl>.
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External scripts may be called by name. Perl will try the same extensions
as when processing B<-S> command-line switch.
Most notable problems:
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