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: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:08:30 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: popen() fails while system() works Message-ID: <20050105100830.GB5240@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.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/1.4.2i 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/