Re: Cygwin 1.5.21 execvp fails when Windows PATH has empty element

2006-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:29:19AM -0400, Steven Doerfler wrote: >A Cygwin program run from cmd.exe fails to invoke another Cygwin via the >PATH, when the PATH contains an empty entry. > >Is this a known bug? Thanks in advance for any responses. It's not a known bug but it is now fixed in CVS. T

Cygwin 1.5.21 execvp fails when Windows PATH has empty element

2006-08-01 Thread Steven Doerfler
A Cygwin program run from cmd.exe fails to invoke another Cygwin via the PATH, when the PATH contains an empty entry. A Windows PATH environment variable might contain adjacent ; characters, as in c:\dir1;;c:\dir2. This is normally a harmless error. (For most Windows programs, an empty entry in