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Re: [MiNT] Mintlib bug?

Hello!

> > I've compiled the tar specs that were already available against the new
> > mintlib and had some issues as previously discussed.  A refresher:
> >
> > root@washi:/root>tar ztvf st157n.tar.gz
> > tar (child): Cannot exec gzip: No such file or directory
> > tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> > tar: Child returned status 2
> > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> Try to locate the origin of the error message "Cannot exec %s" in the
> tar sources.  It will be in the child branch of a call to fork().  Then
> find out the exact arguments that exec*() is called with.  It would also
> be helfpul if you partially dump out the environment of the parent and
> the child process (at least the variables PATH and UNIXMODE) before and
> after fork().

I fixed the problem. execlp must go to execvp, not execve.


Ciao
   ...Frank

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