X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44DA60B9.8070109@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:24:57 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: system() call returns 127 in windows xp References: <20060809213604.52799.qmail@web53506.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060809213604.52799.qmail@web53506.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/