[Biodevelopers] WWWBLAST: blast.REAL process can't read param

[Malay]

my surprise @ARGV is empty even before using the CGI wrapper, though my
> command gets the data through STDIN.
> It works like the original bash script: exec "./blast.REAL" or die "..";
> with your syntax ("./blast.REAL", @ARGV), it works as well but the argument
> is simply discarded since it's empty. Until now, I thought that everything
> that was transmitted as invocation arguments when calling a perl script in
> command line was available either through STDIN or @ARGV. Apparently with a
> CGI script, it doesn't work that way...?
> 
> Whenever I start reading from STDIN or using the CGI wrapper before the
> execution of my command (adn I need to do it to get username and set BLASTDB
> env), then the command doesn't receive the data anymore. If I store the data
> in a variable and use it as an argument in the command, it doesn't work
> either. If I write the same variable to a file, and use with STDIN redirect
> to the command, then it works:
> 
> exec "./blast.REAL < /tmp/formdata" or die "..
> 
> Could it be just a syntax problem in exec, the arguments are simply not
> read?
> 
> I've tried to following with no success:
> 
> exec "./blast.REAL", @formdata or die "..
> exec ("./blast.REAL", @formdata) or die "..
> exec "blast.REAL @formdata" or die "..
> (same with a scalar)

Strange indeed. Calling exec with list [exec ("./blast.REAL", @formdata) 
or die "..] should work fine. I am not sure what's going on. Did you try 
opening "./blast.REAL" as pipe. I am completely unaware of any other 
behaviour. This is the first time I came to know such problem. Let me 
try to check it. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Malay