Continued: small DOS program fails (Permission Denied) when run f rom Bash in XEmacs

Wed May 2 19:07:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> writes:

 Christopher> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:22:30AM -0700, Karr, David wrote:
 >> This is a continuation of an earlier issue. I have a small DOS program,
 >> compiled and linked with MS tools, which executes fine in a standalone
 >> "cmd" window, and in a standalone Bash window, and within GNU make in
 >> either window. However, when the Bash shell is running in XEmacs, it
 >> fails with "Permission Denied". I put a printf at the top of "main",
 >> and it isn't getting there. I would really appreciate some help
 >> understanding what is going on here.
 >> 
 >> I even tried printing "env" in the "good" and "bad" environments and
 >> manually setting (or unsetting) all the variables in the "bad"
 >> environment to match the "good" one, then rerunning it, but that didn't
 >> help. However, there were two variables set in the "good" environment
 >> that I didn't set in the "bad" environment, because I didn't understand
 >> them. They looked like this (straight from the "env" output):
 >> 
 >> !C:=C:\WINNT\PROFILES\david.karr\DESKTOP !D:=D:\cygwin\bin
 >> 
 >> What can I do to get any kind of clue of what is going on here?
 Christopher> Maybe some of the tools at www.sysinternals.com would help. I
 Christopher> still suspect that you are not running the program that you
 Christopher> think you're running.
I've tried specifying both a relative and absolute path to the executable. I'm
already using "filemon" from sysinternals, and it tells me next to nothing,
except for confirming I'm getting the correct executable.
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