[coldfire-gnu-discuss] system() function broken

[Nathan Sidwell]

Michel Marti wrote:
> Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> 
>> Can you determine what is emitting the 'applet not found' message?
> 
> 
> That's a message from busybox itself. E.g. if you invoke "busybox 
> blabla" you will get "blabla: applet not found". According to the 
> system() manpage, it will call "/bin/sh -c <command>", so it looks like 
> the command passed to system() somehow gets lost/garbled.

ah, so IIUC, it appears the "/bin/busybox" string is being transformed into 
"/bin/busybox ?", so busybox is trying to find the '?' applet.

> The board we're using runs linux-2.6.17-rc4 and busybox 1.1.3.

thanks for this information.  At the moment we're unable to reproduce the 
problem.  Have you tried a shell builtin, such as
	system ("echo hello");
?

nathan

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