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

[Michel Marti <michel.marti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

"/bin/busybox -c ?" that is...


> 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");

Here's what happens when calling  system("echo hello"):

# ./test
?<... '?' repeats about 8000 times...>?: applet not found

Actually, the shell shows '?', but the real value of these chars is 0xff (as 
seen when redirecting stderr and piping it through 'hd').

And here's the output of system("/sbin/ifconfig eth0"):

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applet not found