1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

[Christopher Faylor]

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 <stdlib.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #include <sys/cygwin.h>
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
>
>  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


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