system() broken on nt

[l1ghtn1ngth1ef]

First of all Justine I'd just like to go on the record as to commend you for all of your hard work and ongoing efforts regarding such a wonderful C Library. Honestly, hats off to you for such arduous, though rewarding work. Thank you :)

Sidenote: I've googled you out and you seem like a highly knowledgeable and rather inspiring character. Thank you again ;)

To the problems at hand, as confirmed earlier via private channels I am experiencing issues with system() calls not functioning on linux.

for example;

int main(){system("pause");return 0;}

The above appears to be working in windows with regard to system("pause"); however the former appears to cause a segmentation fault on my linux system.

Similarly, int main() {system("notepad");return 0;} also appears to exit in windows without running any programs.

The command line used to build the program is;

gcc -O -s -static -nostdlib -nostdinc -fno-pie -Wl,--oformat=binary -Wl,-T,ape.lds -o velociraptor.com velociraptor.c -include cosmopolitan.h crt.o ape.o cosmopolitan.a

My build system is sexy (though not exotic) and is as follows;

Portage 3.0.12 (python 3.8.6-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.32-r3, 5.4.38-gentoo x86_64)

System uname: Linux-5.4.38-gentoo-x86_64-Intel_CoreProcessor-Skylake,_IBRS-with-glibc2.2.5 KiB Mem: 2031684 total, 120236 free KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 1108220 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:00:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 40b5215293801bc29a2410a16a0da1725faadb67 sh bash 5.0_p18 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.33.1 p2) 2.33.1 app-shells/bash: 5.0_p18::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.3.1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.3::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18-r5::gentoo, 3.7.9-r1::gentoo, 3.8.6-r1::gentoo, 3.9.0-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.17.4-r1::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.7::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.20::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69-r5::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.16.2-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.33.1-r1::gentoo, 2.34-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 9.3.0-r2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.3.2-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.3::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.4-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.32-r3::gentoo Repositories:

gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes

x-portage location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 0

lmiphay location: /var/lib/layman/lmiphay masters: gentoo priority: 50

lua location: /var/lib/layman/lua masters: gentoo priority: 50

menelkir location: /var/lib/layman/menelkir masters: gentoo priority: 50

spikyatlinux location: /var/lib/layman/spikyatlinux masters: gentoo priority: 50

vmacs location: /var/lib/layman/vmacs masters: gentoo priority: 50

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I hope we can get this working soon :)

Thanks!

[l1ghtn1ngth1ef]

Hey Justine. Thanks for the update. I'm happy to confirm the new commit resolves my linux system() issues.

Looking very much forward to the Win/NT solution.

Will keep an eye on things for you.

Cheers!

[jart]

Glad to hear it! The commit log documents other cool bugs that got fixed last weekend. You'll be pleased to know we now have an x86_64-linux-gnu toolchain for Windows that lets you compile your Actually Portable Executables on Windows: https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/windows-compiling.html Thank NASA for helping to make that possible. You'll be the first to know when system() on windows is fixed. Please file issues if you encounter anything else.