On Feb 11, 8:13 am, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > you can't use system() to call a shell script, you need to invoke the shell > interpreter instead, with something like "/system/xbin/sh > /system/xbin/test.sh"
I tried it just now from a trivial C program; worked fine. I'm not sure why it would be different from inside the Android app environment. > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Corey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I write an API in C by using system("/system/xbin/test.sh"); funtion, > > and then my Java code will use this c API code to execute this shell > > script. > > However, it seems nothing happens. > > Can I call a shell script from JNI? Make sure you have the right "#!" line -- "#!/bin/sh" will not work, since the shell doesn't live there. For example: #!/system/bin/sh echo hello >> /sdcard/foo exit 0 Bear in mind that stdin / stdout / stderr are redirected to /dev/null by default, so you won't see any output. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
