Re: system calls failing

Instead of using system calls, try using popen/pclose. Make sure to
pipe stderr to stdout (2>&1) and then read the call back. You'll
likely get more detailed warning messages, as apposed to nothing at
all. That, or pipe all the system calls to a file and read that.

On 4/19/07, Valnir <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I've already checked that. It's a problem where the system call is
> being denied (or so it seems).. I'm having the same problem from my php
> pages.
>
> -Valnir
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Ziccardi [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:12 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Nathan Kodak
> Subject: Re: system calls failing
>
>
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Valnir wrote:
>
> > Hello again. I'm having another interesting error since we moved
> > our game to
> > an in-house server. Any system calls we make (pfile backup, etc)
> > are all
> > failing with a error of -1. Does anyone have any idea why this
> > would be
> > happening? Could it have anything to do with the different GCC
> > version? The
> > new server is running GCC 4.1.1 and everything seems to compile
> > fine, but I
> > don't know if there's options that are disabled or what the problem
> > is. Any
> > guidance would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > /* Game Output */
> > 47665/47665hp 21571/21571m [-332]     8019 > pback
> > Backing up files now...
> > WizNET: [9:04] ERROR: System returned an error during pfile backup.
> > WizNET: [9:04] ERROR: Failure occured at "mv -uf
> > ../../backup/v5.1/player/*.gz ../../backup/v5.1/player_old/" with
> > error -1
> > Backup failed!!
>
>
> I assume on your platform mv -uf is a valid option?
>
> If you haven't already I'd cd into the directory and attempt one or
> two of these manually to see  what might cause the error.
>
>
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