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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 22:36:38 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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To: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: Re: Weird system() thing (was Re: The Bash 2.05 fixinc.sh bug)
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Tim Van Holder wrote:

> > It can be reproduced in a nice 3 line makefile:
> > 
> > SHELL = /bin/sh
> > all:
> >         MAKE="$(MAKE)"
> > 
> > make on this with bash being 2.04 works fine, on 2.05 gives the binary
> > file error (using bash 2.05 from cvs build directory on clio).  Yes,
> > that's a tab before the MAKE.
> 
> I tried to see if this was relatd to system() in
> any way, and clearly it was not (system("FOO=$FOO") works fine).
> 
> But I did find a different, very weird bug (which I don't recall being
> mentioned before): while
> 
> int
> main(void)
> {
>   system("");
> }
> 
> and
> 
> int
> main(void)
> {
>   system("Foo=bar");
> }
> 
> 
> both, as expected, spawn a single instance of command.com, and exit
> after
> that shell is exited, the following does not:
> 
> int
> main(void)
> {
>   system("");
>   system("Foo=bar");
> }

I guess Your executable were named foo.exe. 
                                   ========

In this case it's not surprising. I fell into the same trap.
Tested it under DOSEMU-1.0.2 running under Linux (in SSH session as I'm
currently about 300 km away)

As far as I tested system ("Foo=bar") is interpretted as
'Foo "=bar"' 

Andris

> 
> I'd expect this to run command.com, when that's exited run it again, and
> then exit.  But instead I get a seemingly infinite series of
> command.coms;
> the only way to get out seems to be to type Ctrl-C, as that causes the
> executable to SIGINT out after exiting the subshell.
> 
> This is with straight clio packages for djdev & gcc3.  It does not
> happen
> with two 'system("")' calls.
> 
> 
> 
>