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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:34:44 +0300
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> >- In execve, when creating the Windows environment for the child process,
>> > check if $PATH is empty. If so, set $PATH to /bin for the child.
>> > Or, check if /bin is in $PATH, if not, add it.
>> >
>> >That would catch both problems, backward compatibility with Denis
>> >scenario, as well as the PATH setting in postfix.
>>
>> OK for me. For postfix, the '$PATH is empty' check would be sufficient.
> Thanks, I applied a patch to add the Windows version of /bin to the
> Windows environment when spawning a new process. Checking if $PATH
> contains this dir is a bit awkward. If it really turns out to be
> necessary at one point, we can add it then.
Wouldn't that increase the chance of triggering the bug of environment block
growing too big?
> I'm going to create a 1.7.33-0.3 test release later today.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 27.10.2014, <16:33>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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