From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: spawn: Treat empty path as the current directory.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 19:05:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ba56b80-8faa-de1b-f3c4-f64106797106@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YsKm4GDa5Zi3VHjK@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 7/4/2022 4:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 1 21:32, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I interpreted the existing comment as meaning that a decision was already
>> made at some point to align with Linux. But it can't hurt to wait for
>> Corinna to weigh in.
>
> Personally I don't like this old crufty feature and I would rather keep
> this POSIX compatible, but in fact it was meant to work as on Linux, so,
> please go ahead, Takashi.
>
> However, maybe this should go into the master branch only? WDYT?
I think so. The bug has been around for a long time, and the code is tricky.
So we probably shouldn't take a chance on de-stabilizing the 3.3 branch.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-04 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-27 12:44 Takashi Yano
2022-06-30 15:45 ` Ken Brown
2022-06-30 18:35 ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2022-06-30 19:03 ` Brian Inglis
2022-06-30 19:04 ` Takashi Yano
2022-07-01 1:16 ` Ken Brown
2022-07-01 23:31 ` Takashi Yano
2022-07-02 1:32 ` Ken Brown
2022-07-04 8:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2022-07-04 23:05 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2022-07-05 4:54 ` Takashi Yano
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