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RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
- To: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin dot schnitzius at citrix dot com>
- Subject: RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
- From: mbuch at IFF572 dot IFF dot KFA-JUELICH dot DE
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:27:37 +0100 (CET)
- cc: "'m dot buchmeier at fz-juelich dot de'" <m dot buchmeier at fz-juelich dot de>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Reply-To: m dot buchmeier at fz-juelich dot de
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 14:12:55 -0500
> From: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin.schnitzius@citrix.com>
> To: "'m.buchmeier@fz-juelich.de'" <m.buchmeier@fz-juelich.de>,
> cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: RE: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
>
> Try this program:
>
> main()
> {
> system("cmd /c echo %path%");
> }
>
It does the same:
No output, not even an error-message when called from command-window
or explorer and the expected output when called form inside cywin
(bash)
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mbuch@IFF572.IFF.KFA-JUELICH.DE
> [mailto:mbuch@IFF572.IFF.KFA-JUELICH.DE]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 14:07
> To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: system() function doesnt work outside cygwin
>
> My application (build with unix layer, recent cygwin
> distro, win2K) cant call other programs using the system()
> fucntion when started from outside the cygwin enviroment.
> I have tryed out both posix and unix complete path
> without success.
> Here is a simple code that reproduces the problem:
>
> main()
> {
> system("notepad");
> }
>
> It works fine when invoked from within cygwin
> but when called fron windows nothing happens.
>
> Anyone knows what i am doing wrong ?
> Thanks in advance for your help
>
> Matthias
>
>
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