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Re: System call
I've been using the CD ver 1.0 of Cygwin and I find the following:
$ type dir
dir is /usr/bin/dir
$ ls -l /usr/bin/dir*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rmcgowan None 82530 Sep 13 1999 /usr/bin/dir.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rmcgowan None 26624 Jan 17 2000 /usr/bin/dircolors.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rmcgowan None 16896 Jan 17 2000 /usr/bin/dirname.exe
$ file /usr/bin/dir.exe
/usr/bin/dir.exe: MS Windows PE 32-bit Intel 80386 console executable
not relocatable
I have also checked the sources and find the following comment at the
beginning of the file 'ls.c':
/* `dir', `vdir' and `ls' directory listing programs for GNU.
Copyright (C) 85, 88, 90, 91, 95, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This appears as part of the 'fileutils' package, included on the CD.
A TOC on the fileutils package in Cygwin 1.1.4 shows ls.exe and
vdir.exe, but no dir.exe.
Perhaps this is the source of some of the confusion?
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:21:22AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >> errno=system("dir");
> >
> >There is no program called "dir" anywhere on your computer. No
> >dir.exe, no dir.com. Only the command shell knows how to run "dir"
> >(and other built-ins). So, if you want to do a "dir" you must tell
> >the command shell to do it, either with system("cmd /c dir") or system
> >("command /c dir").
>
> Also, make sure that you have a "/bin/sh" on your system.
>
> The system() function uses /bin/sh to run programs.
>
> cgf
>
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