Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]

[Igor Peshansky]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:27:53PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:04:42PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> >$ cygcheck tclsh
> >> >Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tclsh.exe
> >> >C:/cygwin/bin/tclsh.exe
> >> >$
> >>
> >>   bash$ ls -l /bin/tclsh*
> >>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 cgf None    11 Mar 15  2005 /bin/tclsh.exe -> tclsh84.exe
> >>   -rwxrwxrwx 1 cgf None 16384 Sep  1  2003 /bin/tclsh84.exe
> >>   bash$ cygcheck /bin/tclsh84.exe
> >>   d:/cygwin/bin/tclsh84.exe
> >>     L:\WINXP\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> >>       L:\WINXP\system32\ntdll.dll
> >>     d:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
> >>       L:\WINXP\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
> >> 	L:\WINXP\system32\RPCRT4.dll
> >>     d:/cygwin/bin\tcl84.dll
> >>       L:\WINXP\system32\USER32.dll
> >> 	L:\WINXP\system32\GDI32.dll
> >>
> >> I will look into fixing this.
> >
> >Whatever fix is made, it would be great if cygcheck output the path of
> >symlinks it had to chase to get the executable.  Also, outputting "Not an
> >executable" for scripts and such would help.
>
> I will not look into fixing this.

I will look into fixing this.
	Igor
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