Subject: why does /bin have to be *first* in the PATH?
From: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)

5 Dec 1996 12:06:10 -0800
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Dear cygwin32 maintainers,

I have programs that rely on the ability to do

	PATH=../scripts:$PATH some_script

This breaks in gnu-win32 version b16.

The following untested patch might help.

--- spawn.cc	Thu Aug 29 12:57:46 1996
+++ new.spawn.cc	Fri Dec  6 05:55:01 1996
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@
       debug_printf ("spawn_guts: %s is a script\n", prog_arg);
 
       char *sh_path_buf = (char *) alloca (MAX_PATH);
-      char *sh_path = (char *) find_exec ("sh", sh_path_buf);
+      char *sh_path = (char *) find_exec ("/bin/sh", sh_path_buf);
       char *f = (char *) alloca (strlen (copy) + strlen (sh_path) + 2);
       strcpy (f, sh_path);
       strcat (f, " ");

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