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Subject: system() not working as expected...
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:54:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Brian Michael Genisio" <genisiob AT pilot DOT msu DOT edu>
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Hello, I am having the following problem... I am trying to port a program that
uses the system call.  It works fine if I call it from the cygwin environment's
bash shell, but if I just run bash.exe from a dos prompt, and run the program,
the system() call does not work.

Here is an example :
int main(void)
{
   system("dir");
}

If I compile and run from the bash command line, it works great.  Next, on a
clean system, I copy the sample program, bash.exe, dir.exe and cygwin1.dll to a
directory, and run bash.exe.  Now, I call the sample program, and it exits
normally.

My first thought was that stdout was not displaying correctly, so I tried :
system("dir >junkfile") I got the same results... junkfile was created in the
cygwin environment, and not in the raw bash environment.

My next thought was that the paths were being confused somehow, so I tried
compiling with system("$PWD/dir") and absolute paths... still, I get the same
results.

Any Ideas?
Brian


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