PM42892: PERL DOES NOT EXECUTE WITH CLEARCASE_VIEW SET

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• This is a bit of an edge case, but here's how it breaks down.
  
  In BF, have a CLEARCASE_VIEW set.
  
  In the BF step, have the step command be a perl script, not
  calling a perl script, but have the contents of a perl script:
  
  #!perl
  print 'Hello, world!\n';
  
  When the step is executed, the $SHELL is set to be 'perl'
  instead of the login shell for the auth user.
  
  The agent, seeing the CC bits, will call 'cleartool setview
  -exec'
  
  cleartool setview -exec will spawn whatever the current shell is
  (as defined by the SHELL environment variable) and pass it the
  following command '-c {rest of command from -exec}', so, in this
  case, what happens is 'setview -exec 'perl -c {script}' '
  

Local fix

Problem summary

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  The root cause was that the agent was setting SHELL to a
  value other than the user's normal logon shell.  This is not
  really an appropriate thing to do.
  

Problem conclusion

• SHELL will now get set to the user's logon shell, even when
  #! has been used to change the shell for the step command's
  script.
  

Temporary fix

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Fix information

• Fixed component name

  BUILD FORGE EE

• Fixed component ID

  5724S2702

Applicable component levels

• R712 PSN

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