Subject: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set
From: Denis Excoffier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Denis Excoffier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:33:52 +0200
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

Hello,

I've installed all the Cygwin-1.7.0 packages uptodate, on my Windows  
XP machine.
I do experience a segmentation fault whenever i launch a program when  
the PATH is not set.

When PATH is badly set (but set), nothing happens (and the result is  
OK).

See below how to reproduce. When i switch back to 1.7.0-61, the problem
disappears. On a Windows 2000 machine, the same happens.

Thank you to spend a little time to take my problem into consideration.

Denis Excoffier.

jupiter% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 JUPITER 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin
jupiter% date --version | head -1
date (GNU coreutils) 7.0
jupiter% env --version | head -1
env (GNU coreutils) 7.0
jupiter% env - PATH=/usr/bin /usr/bin/date
Fri Oct 16 17:26:37 RDT 2009
jupiter% env - PATH=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
Fri Oct 16 17:26:37 RDT 2009
jupiter% env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
jupiter% cat date.exe.stackdump
Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610BFBE1
eax=00000001 ebx=006700F0 ecx=00008000 edx=FFFFFFFF esi=00000000  
edi=006700F0
ebp=0022CD18 esp=0022CCC0 program=C:\Users\me\cygwin2009f\bin 
\date.exe, pid 3056, thread main
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0022CD18  610BFBE1  (00008000, 00000000, FFFFFFFF, 6120DD35)
0022CD38  610BFE83  (FFFFFFFF, 00000002, 2D465455, 610F0038)
0022CDB8  610C1A7F  (00000000, 0022CDF0, 610066F0, 7FFDE000)
End of stack trace

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