execvp* and spawnvp* react differently to same PATH environment variable

Peter Dons Tychsen via cygwin cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 9 23:25:00 GMT 2019


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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