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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:34:44 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

>> >- In execve, when creating the Windows environment for the child process,
>> >   check if $PATH is empty.  If so, set $PATH to /bin for the child.
>> >   Or, check if /bin is in $PATH, if not, add it.
>> >
>> >That would catch both problems, backward compatibility with Denis
>> >scenario, as well as the PATH setting in postfix.
>> 
>> OK for me. For postfix, the '$PATH is empty' check would be sufficient.

> Thanks, I applied a patch to add the Windows version of /bin to the
> Windows environment when spawning a new process.  Checking if $PATH
> contains this dir is a bit awkward.  If it really turns out to be
> necessary at one point, we can add it then.

Wouldn't that increase the chance of triggering the bug of environment block
growing too big?

> I'm going to create a 1.7.33-0.3 test release later today.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 27.10.2014, <16:33>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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