On Feb 9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote: > 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...). > 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 …“
I can't reproduce this. If I change my cygdrive mounts to case-sensitive, my shell doesn't start notepad anymore: $ cat /etc/fstab none /mnt cygdrive binary,posix=1,user 0 0 $ echo $SHELL /bin/tcsh $ echo $path /usr/bin /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32 /mnt/c/WINDOWS /mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem /mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0 /usr/lib/lapack $ notepad notepad: Command not found. $ /mnt/c/Windows/notepad <works> $ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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