RE: FW: Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 02 February 2006 17:47, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> On 02 February 2006 17:32, Igor Peshansky wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>>   Does that mean you plan to apply a patch to cgf so that he _will_
>> look into fixing it?
> 
> I'll let CGF thoughtfully consider this one... :-)
> 	Igor


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