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trying to create a simple shell in c for win32 api

I’m doing some C programming in Windows for a low level coding assignment and I’m trying to get this create process to work however. I am try to trying to execute a command as a process, any command you can put into the dos prompt. I’m mainly trying execute “dir”
in a separate process. Can anyone see why this wouldn’t work?

if (!CreateProcess(NULL, "dir",
        NULL,
        NULL,
        TRUE,
        0,
        NULL,
        NULL,
        &si,
        &pi))
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Create Process directly has Failed\n");
        return -1;
    }

Answer 1

Since dir is a cmd.exe built in you need to run cmd , ie set lpApplicationName to cmd.exe and lpCommandLine to dir