Cygwin 1.5.21 execvp fails when Windows PATH has empty element

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Aug 2 15:13:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:29:19AM -0400, Steven Doerfler wrote:
>A Cygwin program run from cmd.exe fails to invoke another Cygwin via the
>PATH, when the PATH contains an empty entry.
>
>Is this a known bug?  Thanks in advance for any responses.

It's not a known bug but it is now fixed in CVS.  Thanks for the test case.

When we start up snapshots again, this will also be fixed in a snapshot
at http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ .

cgf

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