[vox-tech] Binary problems

[Peter Jay Salzman]

On Thu 26 Feb 04, 12:28 PM, Doctorcam <cam@ellisonet.ca> said:
> * Jeff Newmiller (jdnewmil@dcn.davis.ca.us) wrote:
> 
> > Sounds to me like you want to provide a directory specification for the
> > executable...
> > 
> >    ./primafax_l.bin
> > 
> > or
> > 
> >    strace ./primafax_l.bin
> > 
> 
> Colour me red - for embarrassment - I knew this, but the brain wasn't
> working.  Thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious.

ok, so now *i'm* confused.

strace showed a call to open() that returned a file descriptor pointing
to the binary file.  i believe it was fd 4.

i thought open() returned -1 upon error?

pete

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