execvp() runs programs from cwd even if '.' is not in PATH

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov 20 09:48, Christian Franke wrote:
> execvp() and the other 'p' variants of exec run programs also from
> current directory even if '.' is not in the PATH.

If Cygwin doesn't find the executable in $PATH, the string is used
literally when calling spawn_guts, which in turn converts the incoming
path to an absolute Windows path, which obviously works fine.

This is a bug and the fix is easy, but it's not a regression, so we
should better stick to it until after 1.7.1.


Corinna

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