Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags > for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual > directories (e.g. C:\WINDOWS vs. C:\Windows, thanks MS...).
NTFS is a case-insensitive, but case-preserving file system. I'll leave it up to you to google the implications. > However, the shell finds programs anyway, like e.g. notepad. > The exec*p system calls, on the other hand, do not find a program in this > case as demonstrated by the attached test program. > This is in contrast to the Linux (and POSIX?) manual page which claims > „The execlp(), execvp(), and execvpe() functions duplicate the actions > of the shell in searching for an executable file …“ -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 09.02.2015, <07:20> Sorry for my terrible english...
