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Date:	Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:08:30 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: popen() fails while system() works
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On Jan  5 10:19, Rainer Hochreiter wrote:
> my main program 'mpsvcd.exe' dynamically loads a shared library using
> dlopen(). one of the functions from this shared library calls popen() to
> read the standard output from another executable - and this fails with the
> error messages listed below! using system() instead of popen() to start
> the executable works fine, except that i can't read it's standard output.
> what's the difference between using popen() and system() here?
> under linux popen() works also! 
> 
> any hints?

Did you try to rebase the DLLs?  It looks like an address conflict:
> 
> C:\cygwin\opt\topcall\bin\mpsvcd.exe (1340): *** unable to remap
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll to same address as parent(0x1CC0000) !=
> 0x1CD0000

See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rebase-2.3.README.


HTH
Corinna

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