X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:37:20 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98) Message-ID: <20051231043720.GC2322@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1125870155 DOT 32392 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com> <431BFA1D DOT 5040903 AT cs DOT yale DOT edu> <20050905174859 DOT GB3621 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <431CA835 DOT 5060502 AT cs DOT yale DOT edu> <431CA98A DOT 5070806 AT byu DOT net> <431CACC0 DOT 3060009 AT cs DOT yale DOT edu> <43b35194 AT wupperonline DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43b35194@wupperonline.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:07:00AM +0100, Ingo Brueckl wrote: >On Mon, 05 Sep 2005, Sean Gugler wrote: > >> Score! Snapshot 20050905 did the trick. > >Unfortunately, there is still a crash with: > > #include > #include > #include > #include > > int cygwinsystem (const char *cmd) > { > pid_t pid; > int rc; > static int result; > > if (!(pid = fork())) > { > char *com = getenv("COMSPEC"); > if (!com) com = "COMMAND.COM"; > > if (cmd) rc = execlp(com, com, "/c", cmd, NULL); > else rc = execlp(com, com, NULL); > > exit(rc); > } > wait(&result); > return result; > } > > int main (int argc, char **argv) > { > return cygwinsystem(argv[1]); > } > >When calling this program with an argument like 'dir'. The dir listing >appears, but then the program crashes. Tested with latest snapshot 20051227. No crash here. cygcheck output would help. cgf -- 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/