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From: Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis AT mailc DOT net>
Subject: Re: strange thing for execlp() function
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:11:13 -0500
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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 <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <string.h>
> 
> 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".


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