First, system returns either -1 for error, in which case, as is generally true, you need to look at errno to find the reason for the failure; otherwise it returns the exit code of the application.
Second, it's often useful to use truss to diagnose errors like this: Try truss -t execve -a <command> and see exactly what arguments the shell is getting. Are you supplying a full absolute path in dest, or is it relative? mspaper wrote: > rm and cp return non zero values sometimes. > > sprintf(tmp, "rm -rf %s/* 2>/dev/null\n", dest); > rc = system( tmp ); > rc = 1 > > sprintf(tmp, "cp -r %s/* %s 2>/dev/null", source, dest); > rc = system( tmp ); > rc = -1 > > The files exist and the paths are correct. I can do a manual copy but the > application fails. If I restart the application, this works fine. > Can anyone tell why this could happen? What do the return values mean? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-code mailing list > opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
