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 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:59:36 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.3.22: popen() fails without /bin/sh Message-ID: <20040109155936.GF13205@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com So is it cygwin common-theme Friday? On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:51:44PM +0100, mbuch@IFF572.IFF.KFA-JUELICH.DE wrote: >i have the same popen() problem as described in >http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00567.html i.e. my >programm crashes when calling popen() on a system with minimal cygwin >files (only cygwin1.dll and sh.exe in the windows path). Does anyone >know if there has been a solution or fix meanwhile ? This is not a bug. popen is *designed* to use /bin/sh. cgf -- 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/