I am using perl 4.036 on a Solaris 2.3 machine.
the following command leaves $cwd empty

$cwd = `pwd`;

Any suggetstions???

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: I am using perl 4.036 on a Solaris 2.3 machine.
: the following command leaves $cwd empty
:
: $cwd = `pwd`;
:
: Any suggetstions???

The only thing I can think is that you perl is nor correctly
compiled. Did you execute an 'make test' ?

Or... Could you be using a bin from SunOS 4.x ??? I don't know if this
will produce this error, but with Sun I can expect everything

I just tested:

        #!/usr/local/bin/perl4.036
        $cwd=`pwd`;
        print $cwd,"\n";

On my 2.3 machine and it worked ok.
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: I am using perl 4.036 on a Solaris 2.3 machine.
: the following command leaves $cwd empty

: $cwd = `pwd`;

: Any suggetstions???

When you built perl did you run the test suite? i.e. make test

I would guess that the problem is caused by compiling Perl with vfork enabled.
Look in config.sh for

    d_vfork='define'

change it to

    d_vfork='undef'

and recompile.

Paul