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From: "Peter Dons Tychsen via cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>, "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: execvp* and spawnvp* react differently to same PATH environment variable
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 23:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44c967db7f6941282c83a64ab4e966302379043a.camel@tdcadsl.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d613e3c2-0420-2233-2b1e-77c704824b3d@cornell.edu>

Hi Ken,

> I think you're probably right.  The use of FE_NNF in execvp* was
> introduced in 
> commit 6d63272b.  I suspect it was just an oversight that the spawvp*
> functions 
> weren't changed in the same way.  I'll send a patch to the cygwin-
> patches list 
> to fix this.  When Corinna returns, she can tell us whether there's
> some reason 
> that spawnvp should be different from execvp.

Excellent. Thanks for the fast response. I will keep an eye out for
when it lands.

Thanks,

/pedro

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-09 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-07 20:51 donpedro.tdcadsl.dk via cygwin
2019-10-09 16:43 ` Ken Brown
2019-10-09 23:25   ` Peter Dons Tychsen via cygwin [this message]

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