Re: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct 17 04:33, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed all the Cygwin-1.7.0 packages uptodate, on my Windows XP 
> machine.
> I do experience a segmentation fault whenever i launch a program when the 
> PATH is not set.
>
> When PATH is badly set (but set), nothing happens (and the result is OK).
>
> See below how to reproduce. When i switch back to 1.7.0-61, the problem
> disappears. On a Windows 2000 machine, the same happens.
>
> Thank you to spend a little time to take my problem into consideration.
>
> Denis Excoffier.
>
> jupiter% uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 JUPITER 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin
> jupiter% date --version | head -1
> date (GNU coreutils) 7.0
> jupiter% env --version | head -1
> env (GNU coreutils) 7.0
> jupiter% env - PATH=/usr/bin /usr/bin/date
> Fri Oct 16 17:26:37 RDT 2009
> jupiter% env - PATH=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Fri Oct 16 17:26:37 RDT 2009
> jupiter% env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Strange.  I can't reproduce this:

  $ env - PATHOS=/dqd /usr/bin/date
  Mon Oct 19 11:26:46 WEDT 2009

  $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/env
  PATHOS=/nonexistent
  SYSTEMROOT=C:\Windows
  WINDIR=C:\Windows


Corinna

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