Re: Gprolog 1.4 exec/5 does not work under cygwin

[Mark Utting]

Daniel Diaz-3 wrote:
> 
>     A first remark without looking at details... 
>     
>     The gprolog version you downloaded is a native Windows app. It does
>     not know nothing about cygwin. 
>     In particular bash or /bin cannot be resolved. 
>     You can try passing 'c:/cygwin/bin/echo abc' to see if it is better. 
>     For instance try: 
>     
>     exec('dir', I,O,E,P), repeat, get_char(O,T), write(T), T =
> end_of_file, !, wait(P,S). 
> 
>     What do you obtain ? 
> 


Interesting, I get this:


$ gprolog
GNU Prolog 1.4.0
By Daniel Diaz
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Daniel Diaz
| ?- exec('dir', I,O,E,P), repeat, get_char(O,T), write(T),  T =
end_of_file, !, wait(P,S).
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is F44F-E564

 Directory of C:\marku\starlog\trunk

12/12/2011  12:31 PM    <DIR>          .
12/12/2011  12:31 PM    <DIR>          ..
13/12/2011  02:13 PM    <DIR>          .svn
12/12/2011  12:30 PM    <DIR>          art
12/12/2011  12:31 PM    <DIR>          cuda
12/12/2011  12:31 PM    <DIR>          doc
...
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
              31 Dir(s)  314,787,344,384 bytes free
end_of_file

uncaught exception: error(system_error('No child processes'),wait/2)
| ?-


which shows that the exec is working, but the wait is not (perhaps the child
process is not being kept around as a zombie until the wait?)


>    or
>    exec('c:/cygwin/bin/echo abc', I,O,E,P), repeat, get_char(O,T),
> write(T),  T = end_of_file, !, wait(P,S).
>    What do you obtain ?


Same result.  
I did this twice - the first time with a non-existent executable and the
second time with the correct path to cygwin echo.


$ gprolog
GNU Prolog 1.4.0
By Daniel Diaz
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Daniel Diaz
| ?- exec('c:/cygwin/bin/echo abc', I,O,E,P), repeat, get_char(O,T),
write(T),  T = end_of_file, !, wait(P,S).
end_of_file

uncaught exception: error(system_error('No child processes'),wait/2)
| ?- exec('c:/Apps/cygwin/bin/echo abc', I,O,E,P), repeat, get_char(O,T),
write(T),  T = end_of_file, !, wait(P,S).
abc
end_of_file

uncaught exception: error(system_error('No child processes'),wait/2)
| ?-

 


>    If you want a pure cygwin app you should download a source .tar.gz
> package and build it under cygwin.


Yes, I've tried that.  It builds and installs successfully, but I get the
same problem with wait/2:


address@hidden /cygdrive/c/Apps/gprolog-1.4.0/src
$ which gprolog
/usr/local/bin/gprolog


$ gprolog
GNU Prolog 1.4.0
By Daniel Diaz
Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Daniel Diaz
| ?- exec('dir', I,O,E,P), repeat, get_char(O,T), write(T),  T =
end_of_file, !, wait(P,S).
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is F44F-E564

 Directory of C:\Apps\gprolog-1.4.0\src

14/12/2011  06:01 AM    <DIR>          .
14/12/2011  06:01 AM    <DIR>          ..
17/12/2008  02:36 AM             4,131 .indent.pro
18/06/1999  05:53 PM             7,832 AUTOCONF-INFO
14/12/2011  06:00 AM    <DIR>          BipsFD
14/12/2011  05:59 AM    <DIR>          BipsPl
...
              22 File(s)        414,279 bytes
              16 Dir(s)  314,768,809,984 bytes free
end_of_file

uncaught exception: error(system_error('No child processes'),wait/2)
| ?-


> Does the gprolog 1.4.0 wait/2 call work on your Windows machine?

Ordinary C programs that use exec and wait seem to work fine,
for example the fork-03.c program here:
http://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs4411/www/NOTES/process/fork/wait.html  seems to
produce the expected output.


Thanks
Mark


    
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