X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:36:31 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set Message-ID: <20091019093631.GA3986@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Oct 17 04:33, Denis Excoffier wrote: > 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) Strange. I can't reproduce this: $ env - PATHOS=/dqd /usr/bin/date Mon Oct 19 11:26:46 WEDT 2009 $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/env PATHOS=/nonexistent SYSTEMROOT=C:\Windows WINDIR=C:\Windows Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple