From: pmularski AT clariion DOT com (Peter Mularski) Subject: RE: Exec/spawn outside of cygnus environment? 9 Jul 1998 00:49:58 -0700 Message-ID: <000001bda9a6$60c63670$732ddd80.cygnus.gnu-win32@cpc45115.us.dg.com> References: <19980707123318 DOT 27860 DOT rocketmail AT send1c DOT yahoomail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: , Following is the code that I'm trying to use -- neither the system call nor the execv calls will work outside of the cygwin environment -- they all return "bad command or filename", although the directory that the program is run from (d:\tlserve\exectest) does contain the 'hello2.bat' batch file. within the cygwin environment, the system call and the first execv call execute correctly, as they are expected to. I can compile this in Visual C++ 5.0 and it will run correctly from the dos end, so I think it has something to do with the cygwin DLL file (I am using b19.1, by the way). Any suggestions? Peter Mularski CLARiiON ------- #include #include #include int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { char *cmdList[2]; printf ("Running dir\n"); cmdList[0]= "dir"; cmdList[1]= NULL; system (cmdList[0]); cmdList[0]= "./hello2.bat"; cmdList[1]= NULL; execv (cmdList[0], cmdList); perror ("Error"); cmdList[0]= ".\\hello2.bat"; cmdList[1]= NULL; execv (cmdList[0], cmdList); perror ("Error"); cmdList[0]= "hello2.bat"; cmdList[1]= NULL; execv ("d:\\tlserve\\exectest\\hello2.bat", cmdList); perror ("Error"); cmdList[0]= "hello2"; cmdList[1]= NULL; execv (cmdList[0], cmdList); perror ("Error"); return (0); } > -----Original Message----- > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 8:33 AM > To: Peter Mularski; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: Exec/spawn outside of cygnus environment? > > > The MSDOS shell will not understand any cygwin mounted paths you must > specify the physical path. Also the //D/ drive letter notation will > not work under MSDOS. > > If this doesn't fit your problem, send a sample of what your trying to > do. > > ---Peter Mularski wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have been trying to use execv/spawnv outside of the cygnus > environment > > (e.g. via the cygwinb19.dll). My exec/spawn calls run fine within > the cygnus > > environment, but outside of the environment, windows returns a 'bad > command > > or filename'. I have tried both '/' and '\' for path specifiers, and > nothing > > will seem to work! Anyone had any experience with this? Other than > that, > > cygwin is fantastic! > > > > Peter Mularski > > > > - > > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a > message to > > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > > > - \\||// > ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- > --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- > ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- > > Please, research your question via the Searchable Mail Archives first. > http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Searchable Mail Archives) > > Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) > http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) > http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) > http://dvpraktikum.informatik.uni-koeln.de:3232/ > (Cygwin32 Porting Project) > http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) > ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) > http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - Mingw32) > http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) > ftp://ftp.hksys.com/pub/mirrors/EGCS-Win32/ (Jeremy Bettis - mirror) > http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) > http://www.downloadwizard.com/ak/gnu-win32/bash.html > (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) > http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) > http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) > http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt > (Package Porting Notes) > ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ > (German mirror) > http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) > ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 (David fox - RPM packages) > http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) > http://www.kedemel.demon.co.uk/ (Darren's ports) > > Help for Win32 Beginners: > http://www.relisoft.com > http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html > > DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do > not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products > or services therein. 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