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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: help with popen()
Message-ID: <15104@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 6 Feb 91 19:43:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.053237.11051@iguana.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Feb6.053237.11051@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
>is my popen() broken?

No, because popen() DID successfully start up "sh -c no_such_file";
when you examine the status from pclose() you should see that the
command did not succeed, however.