On Feb 9 21:49, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 09.02.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >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> > > $ > Sorry, I forgot one detail: I added /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32 to my path > so the shell will find it, but yet execlp does not find it.
Which makes sense, given that notepad is not in C:\Windows\System32, but in C:\Windows. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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