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Re: system_exec() on Linux

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at bluefr?g?com> Oct 10, 2007
• 623 views

Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Julio C. Galaret Viera wrote:
> > According docs: "If it is not possible to run the program, system_exec()
> > will
> > return -1."
> > 
> > While that happens on Windows, on Linux does not return -1 when trying to
> > run
> > a program that does not exist.
> > 
> > Euphoria v. 2.5/3.l.1
> 
> I tried the system_exec() example on Linux.
> It didn't return a -1 error code, but did
> return a non-zero code (32512) which indicates an error. 
> Is that what you got?
> Maybe I just need to change the documentation.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>

man system says:

The value returned is -1 on error if the fork fails; otherwise
return the status of the command.

The status returned depends on the type of job your executing.

Bernie

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WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

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