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Jeff Lu wrote:
> I ran into a brick wall and could not find anything on
> the web and on the post to resolve the problem I'm
> having, which is a strange one. 
>  
> I have a C program that call system("ls -la >
> dir.txt") that works fine within bash cygwin.  It also
> has been working on the computers running windows xp
> without cygwin installed (only required dlls were
> copied to it).
>  
> For some reason the program is giving me error 127
> when calling system() on the new machines running
> windows xp without cygwin installed.  I have tried
> everything I could think of but nothing seems to work.
>  I have mouted the drive in the registry as follow
>  
> mounts v2
> cygdrive flags  REG_DWORD  0x00000022(34)
> cygdrive prefix REG_SZ           /cygdrive
>  
>    /c
>    flags            REG_DWORD  0x0000000a(10)
>    native          REG_SZ           c:


That's not enough for Cygwin to work.  You should add mount
points for '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib', and '/'.  Also check if
the paths to 'cygwin1.dll' and 'ls.exe' are set.  I'd think
some form of both of these would be necessary to make this
stuff work for you on any system.


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