help with popen()

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Feb6.053237.11051 at iguana.uucp> merce at iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
>is my popen() broken?

No, because popen() DID successfully start up "sh -c no_such_file";
when you examine the status from pclose() you should see that the
command did not succeed, however.