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From: joy <gracecott@sancharnet.in>
Subject: Re: problem in open sys call
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:40:01 +0530
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To: "Huber, George K RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI" <George.K.Huber@us.army.mil>
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Huber, George K RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote:

 >Hi,
 >
 >Try this:
 >
 >	if((fd=open(opcode, O_RDONLY))==-1)
 >      {
 >	  printf("Open failed, error code: %d\n%s\n", errno, strerror(errno)
 >      }
 >		
 >you may need to add errno.h and string.h to the list of includes. 
This will
 >give you the error code and desctiption of why open is failing.
 >
 >
thanks a lot, george but I think Glynn hit the nail on the head. the
code was working fine before I added the opcode variable in main
and totlly neglected to see it while gdb'ing.

 >George Huber
 >SRI, International
 >
 >-----Original Message-----
 >From: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org
 >[mailto:linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of joy
 >Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 2:32 PM
 >To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
 >Subject: problem in open sys call
 >
 >
 >Hi,
 >I have a small prblem i the open call. it fails every time and I dont
 >know why.
 >
 >thanx in advance,
 >Joy.M.M
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