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Re: execvp() runs programs from cwd even if '.' is not in PATH
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:59:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: execvp() runs programs from cwd even if '.' is not in PATH
- References: <1NBPAK-1lORIe0@fwd05.aul.t-online.de> <20091120105935.GS29173@calimero.vinschen.de>
According to Corinna Vinschen on 11/20/2009 3:59 AM:
> On Nov 20 09:48, Christian Franke wrote:
>> execvp() and the other 'p' variants of exec run programs also from
>> current directory even if '.' is not in the PATH.
>
> If Cygwin doesn't find the executable in $PATH, the string is used
> literally when calling spawn_guts, which in turn converts the incoming
> path to an absolute Windows path, which obviously works fine.
>
> This is a bug and the fix is easy, but it's not a regression, so we
> should better stick to it until after 1.7.1.
Are you planning on checking in the fix now?
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Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net