Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: strange thing for execlp() function Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:11:13 -0500 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20040124212204 DOT 2386 DOT qmail AT web41412 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 In-Reply-To: <20040124212204.2386.qmail@web41412.mail.yahoo.com> kaiduan xie wrote: > Hi,all, > > I just want to use execlp to invoke another program > from a program. It works on Linux, but it stucks on > Cygwin. Acutally, this is a very very very simple > program: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > #include > > int main() > { > pid_t pid; > > printf("Hello, cygwin!\n"); > if (execlp("/home/kaiduan/test2.exe", > "test2.exe",(char *)0) < 0) > printf("Error is %s\n", strerror(errno)); > } > > I also added current directy to PATH, but it still > sucks. Anything wrong? Yes, there is something wrong. You haven't said what the problem is (other than it sucking). This program works fine for me if i change the line to "/bin/ls.exe". -- 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/