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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:01:27 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: system call
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Muzero wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your reply but it still do not work...
> the problem is thant under cygwin the execution of "dir" works fine but i have to run the program in an enviroment WITHOUT cygwin: it's in the DOS shell that the system() call do not works and return with code number 127.
> In the final application, i'll not use "dir" command, but another program.

system() calls /bin/sh to process the command (as the posix standards
require), and if you have no mounts there will be no /bin and hence no
/bin/sh to execute.

Brian

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