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RE: 1.5.19-4 exec family of functions find wrong file to execute


It's not perfect.  But I think you got the gist of it.

Thanks,
Martin

--- Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:

> On 31 January 2006 17:58, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> 
> 
> >> In response to your comments:
> >> I ran the testcase from ~/testcases directory. I believe my
> cygwin.out
> >> file indicates /home is mounted from D:\home (HOME=/home/test).
> Also,
> >> D: is NTFS.  Also, there is nothing special about mount point (no
> -x
> >> flag was used).  This is all shown in cygwin.out.
> > 
> > Then you'll just have to run this under strace, and see why it
> selects
> > 	that file to execute. Igor
> 
> 
>   I'll just add at this point that when I went back over the thread
> (looking for that cygcheck.out), I found your test case and
> can't exactly reproduce your results:
> 
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> gcc test2.c -o test2
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> PATH=/usr/bin:.
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 nopathnoext
> NoPath
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> touch echo
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> ls -l echo
> -rw-r--r--  1 dk Domain Users 0 Jan 31 18:32 echo
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 nopathnoext
> NoPath
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> PATH=.:/usr/bin
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 nopathnoext
> nopathnoext: Permission denied
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> rm -f echo
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 nopathnoext
> NoPath
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> echo garbage > echo
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 nopathnoext
> nopathnoext: Permission denied
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> ls -l echo
> -rw-r--r--  1 dk Domain Users 8 Jan 31 18:33 echo
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 nopathext
> NoPathExt
> dk@rainbow /test/exec> test2 path
> Usage: test2 nopathnoext|nopathext|pathnoext|pathext
> dk@rainbow /test/exec>
> 
> 
>   This is at least partly down to the fact that you either a) forged
> your results rather than cutting and pasting them or b)
> attached a different program from the one you actually used as a
> testcase when you sent your email!
> 
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
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