Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/19/05:49:15
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:25:21PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >This mail is inspired by an offlist discussion with James Lee about vi
> >execution before "cvs commit" command.
> >
> >Given the following simple test he says nothing happens after he
> >executes it, as happens with the "cvs commit" command which fails to
> >execute vi with the following error code "cannot exec vi: No such file
> >or directory".
> >
> >#include <unistd.h>
> >
> >int main() { char *arg[] = { 0 };
> >
> >execvp("vi", arg);
> >
> >return 0; }
> >
> >If he sets for example the EDITOR variable to /usr/bin/vi then cvs
> >suceeds in executing vi.
> >
> >So is this a known problem with execvp assuming that it should search
> >the path for the executable.
>
> I can't duplicate any problem with your test case. It works as expected
> for me. Ditto, cvs.
Yes that's why I'm curios - it doesnt happen on every setup. However
here is something which is different from most standard cygwin installs:
He installed it in the root of his C: drive
C:\bin /usr/bin system textmode
C:\lib /usr/lib system textmode
C: / system textmode
Found: C:\bin\bash.exe
Found: \bin\bash.exe
Warning: C:\bin\bash.exe hides \bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\bin\cat.exe
Found: \bin\cat.exe
Warning: C:\bin\cat.exe hides \bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\bin\cpp.exe
Found: \bin\cpp.exe
Warning: C:\bin\cpp.exe hides \bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\bin\find.exe
Found: \bin\find.exe
Warning: C:\bin\find.exe hides \bin\find.exe
Found: C:\bin\gcc.exe
Found: \bin\gcc.exe
Warning: C:\bin\gcc.exe hides \bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\bin\gdb.exe
Found: \bin\gdb.exe
Warning: C:\bin\gdb.exe hides \bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\bin\ld.exe
Found: \bin\ld.exe
Warning: C:\bin\ld.exe hides \bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\bin\ls.exe
Found: \bin\ls.exe
Warning: C:\bin\ls.exe hides \bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\bin\make.exe
Found: \bin\make.exe
Warning: C:\bin\make.exe hides \bin\make.exe
Found: C:\bin\sh.exe
Found: \bin\sh.exe
Warning: C:\bin\sh.exe hides \bin\sh.exe
Here is his path which may give additional details too:
ygnus Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Oct 19 15:50:23 2001
WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 2
Path: c
/jdk1.3.1/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/Oracle/Ora81/bin
/Program Files/Oracle/jre/1.1.7/bin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin
/dev/ant/bin
/WINNT/system32
/WINNT
/WINNT/System32/Wbem
.
c
/dev/ant/bin
c
/usr/local/emacs/bin
SysDir: C:\WINNT\System32
WinDir: C:\WINNT
I'm looking at the spawn_guts code to see if
there is something in this setup which may
broke execvp.
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