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Subject: Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset
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Comments: In-reply-to Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>   message dated "Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:29:06 +0200."
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:46:27 -0400
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In message <20141009162906 DOT GA25389 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de>you write:
>
>Any other idea what *might* be broken if we remove CWD from the
>DLL search path?
>
>
>Corinna
>

I'm pretty sure I've got some programs loading Tcl extensions that
cd into the directory with the extension dlls, load the extension and then
change back to where ever they were.

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