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Subject: Re: Cannot exec() program outside of /bin if PATH is unset
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2014-10-10 12:34 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>:
> On Oct  9 11:46, tednolan AT bellsouth DOT net wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hmm.  If so, it's quite a weird way to handle this, rather than
> loading the modules with full path.
>
> Is that a Tcl "feature", or is it how certain Tcl apps are implemented?
> I can't really believe the former...

This is certainly not a Tcl "feature"!  The standard Tcl extension
mechanism always uses the full path simply because Tcl
cannot depend on platform-specific ways to search for
such libraries elsewhere.

I'm willing to test this;I don't believe such a change
will break anything in my Tcl environment.

Regards,
       Jan Nijtmans

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