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Re: system() call returns 127 in windows xp
On Aug 9 18:24, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Jeff Lu wrote:
> >I ran into a brick wall and could not find anything on
> >the web and on the post to resolve the problem I'm
> >having, which is a strange one.
> >
> >I have a C program that call system("ls -la >
> >dir.txt") that works fine within bash cygwin. It also
> >has been working on the computers running windows xp
> >without cygwin installed (only required dlls were
> >copied to it).
> >
> >For some reason the program is giving me error 127
> >when calling system() on the new machines running
> >windows xp without cygwin installed. I have tried
> >everything I could think of but nothing seems to work.
> > I have mouted the drive in the registry as follow
> >
> >mounts v2
> >cygdrive flags REG_DWORD 0x00000022(34)
> >cygdrive prefix REG_SZ /cygdrive
> >
> > /c
> > flags REG_DWORD 0x0000000a(10)
> > native REG_SZ c:
>
>
> That's not enough for Cygwin to work. You should add mount
> points for '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib', and '/'. Also check if
> the paths to 'cygwin1.dll' and 'ls.exe' are set. I'd think
> some form of both of these would be necessary to make this
> stuff work for you on any system.
Exit status 127 means that system didn't find /bin/sh. See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/system.html
Corinna
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