Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH OSSTEST] PDU/xenuse: Support xenuse on machine not locked by current user

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST] PDU/xenuse: Support xenuse on machine 
not locked by current user"):
> On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 11:25 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 1. Perl dynamic scoping ("local"):
> > 
> >    {
> >        local $ENV{USER} = $user;
> >        system_checked($xenuse, "--$onoff", "$mo->{Host}{Name}");
> >    }
> > 
> > IMO this is idiomatic Perl.
> 
> I tried this and it didn't work. I think local causes $ENV to loose its
> magic properties.

mariner:~> perl -e '{ local $ENV{USER}="foo"; system "printenv"; }; system 
"printenv"' | grep USER=
USER=foo
USER=iwj
mariner:~>

I'm not sure what you tried...

Ian.

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