Re: [Boost-users] [1.35, Boost.Test] error when using system in a test

From: Jens Seidel (jensseidel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-03 09:22:59

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:06:15AM +0200, Christoph Duelli wrote:
> The following (see below) test programm compiles under both 1.34.1 and
> 1.35.0; if linked against 1.35.0 it produces the following error message:
> 
> Running 1 test case...
> A
> unknown location(0): fatal error in "test_call_system": child has exited;
> pid: 1000; uid: 16129; exit value: 0

That's bug http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1723.

> Yes, that's it! A single and simple system()-call.
> (I use these to setup/teardown my test environment; i.e. I create and remove
> a directory here, really. If there is a better way to do that: hints
> welcome!)

I did the same :-) Nevertheless Boost has a library for filesystem
operations which should be platform independent ...

Jens