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: <426DBCC3.6030909@awcubed.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:03 -0400 From: Archie Warnock Organization: A/WWW Enterprises User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems References: <426D5CAB.2070804@awcubed.com> <426DB60B.9090004@awcubed.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes René Berber wrote: > I don't know if it works but I would try to use popen(), there's also > exec() and all it's relatives. I'll try popen. I'm not inclined to use anything from exec or spawn - I don't want to replace the program. I just need to run an external program and read the results back in. > Registry perhaps, the cygwin1.dll has to set a sane environment for > itself, it probably gets the location of the Cygwin installation plus > the mount table and some environment variables. I understand. Thanks. -- Archie -- Archie Warnock Internet: warnock@awcubed.com -- A/WWW Enterprises http://www.awcubed.com -- As a matter of fact, I _do_ speak for my employer. -- 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/