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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:02:19 +0200
From:	Christian Franke <Christian DOT Franke AT t-online DOT de>
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Subject:	Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset
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If PATH variable is unset or does not contain /bin or /usr/bin, 
exec("/not_bin/program", ...) fails because cygwin DLLs could not be loaded.

This affects postfix which cleans the environment to the bare minimum 
for security reasons.
(fortunately there is an easy workaround, so this does not block postfix 
ITP)

Testcase:

$ cat nopath.cc
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
// #include <windows.h>

int main()
{
   unsetenv("PATH");
   // SetDllDirectory("c:\\cygwin\\bin");
   execl("/usr/sbin/alternatives", "alternatives", (const char*)0);
   perror("execl");
   return 1;
}

$ make nopath
...

$ ./nopath
/usr/sbin/alternatives.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Enabling the SetDllDirectory() Win32 call fixes the problem.
Would possibly make sense to add this call to cygwin1.dll.


Christian


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