On 15 July 2011 19:41, Luiz Claudio Valdetaro wrote: > i, > > I am planning a minimalistic installation of my application using cygwin. > Everything works fine, except that popen() fails when running from the > windows prompt. > > If I ran from the bash shell prompt of cygwin , it works fine. It is the > only api I use that is failing. I created a simple, test program to narrow > the issue, and it also fails. > > my intention is an installation with just my app, plus the cygwin.dll, as > little files as possible. > > This is my test program: > > main (argc,argv) > int argc; > unsigned char *argv[]; > { > FILE *f; > char command[80]="ls -l CGI-BIN"; > char response[200]; > f = popen (command,"r"); > if (f == NULL) { > puts ("stream error"); > exit (0); > } > while (fgets(response,199,f) != NULL) { > puts (response); > } > fclose (f); > } > > The program allays fails printing "stream error"
It's because popen() requires /bin/sh. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple