Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42243D77.EB6DD8DF@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:01:27 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: system call References: <42235790.3070208@subnet142.com> <20050301095849.2242440d.gigy@freemail.it> <20050301090233.GT18314@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20050301103835.0084b49c.gigy@freemail.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Muzero wrote: > > Thanks for your reply but it still do not work... > the problem is thant under cygwin the execution of "dir" works fine but i have to run the program in an enviroment WITHOUT cygwin: it's in the DOS shell that the system() call do not works and return with code number 127. > In the final application, i'll not use "dir" command, but another program. system() calls /bin/sh to process the command (as the posix standards require), and if you have no mounts there will be no /bin and hence no /bin/sh to execute. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/