[Boost-users] [boost-users][test] Problems calling ::system() (... child has exited ...)

From: Darren Garvey (lists.drrngrvy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-20 20:02:52

Hello all,

I'm trying to use system calls in a test that uses Boost.Test.  I've been
trying to use Julio Merino Vidal's Boost.Process sandbox code (which I have
working most of the time), but I've also tried the ::system() call too. The
following super-simple test case causes the prepended error... The fact that
I can't get this working makes me wonder if I'm doing something forbidden?

Platform:
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Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang
--prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.3
--program-suffix=-4.1--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug
--enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
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Error:
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Running 1 test case...
unknown location(0): fatal error in "wget_test_1": child has exited; pid:
1000; uid: 11541; exit value: 0

*** 1 failure detected in test suite "wget_tests"

EXIT STATUS: 201
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Program:
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#define BOOST_TEST_MODULE broken
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( broken_test )
{
  ::system("ls");
}
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Regards,
Darren