Subject: Re: 1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set
From: Denis Excoffier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Denis Excoffier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:51:23 +0100
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On 2009-10-19 21:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 19 21:18, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>
> It does.  The value of $PATH is used without checking if $PATH
> exists.  I fixed that in CVS.
Thank you. Let's wait until 1.7.0-63 now.

In the same spirit, i discovered that
`cygcheck -s' does not behave correctly (ie is prematurely
interrupted) if COMSPEC is not set to the
appropriate value (C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe or equivalent),
or is not set at all.

This fact would perhaps deserve a short notice in some man page.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.

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