problem with using system(3S) on 3b1 v3.51

Norman Yarvin yarvin-norman at CS.YALE.EDU
Mon Jul 23 04:13:54 AEST 1990


In article <203 at geocub.greco-prog.fr> lath at geocub.greco-prog.fr (Laurent Lathieyre) writes:

>kw: is not an identifier

That message came from sh.  Sh parses its envp, and if it doesn't like the
variable names, it complains and dies.  The fix is to stop munging *envp.
On the Unix PC, *envp is located right after *argv, for ease of munging.

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Norman Yarvin					yarvin-norman at cs.yale.edu



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