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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:49:24 +0100
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Am 09.02.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb  9 00:04, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> With a Windows case sensitive file system (and according mount flags
>> for /cygdrive), the PATH does not properly reflect casing of the actual
>> directories (e.g. C:\WINDOWS vs. C:\Windows, thanks MS...).
>> However, the shell finds programs anyway, like e.g. notepad.
>> The exec*p system calls, on the other hand, do not find a program in this
>> case as demonstrated by the attached test program.
>> This is in contrast to the Linux (and POSIX?) manual page which claims
>> „The execlp(), execvp(), and execvpe() functions duplicate the actions
>> of the shell in searching for an executable file …“
> I can't reproduce this.  If I change my cygdrive mounts to
> case-sensitive, my shell doesn't start notepad anymore:
>
>    $ cat /etc/fstab
>    none /mnt cygdrive binary,posix=1,user 0 0
>    $ echo $SHELL
>    /bin/tcsh
>    $ echo $path
>    /usr/bin /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32 /mnt/c/WINDOWS /mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem /mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0 /usr/lib/lapack
>    $ notepad
>    notepad: Command not found.
>    $ /mnt/c/Windows/notepad
>    <works>
>    $
Sorry, I forgot one detail: I added /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32 to my path
so the shell will find it, but yet execlp does not find it.

#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main (int argc, char * * argv)
{
         char * prog = argc > 1 ? argv [1] : "notepad";
         int res;
         printf ("Calling exec %s\n", prog);

         res = execlp (prog, "-", 0);
         if (res < 0) {
                 fprintf (stderr, "errno %d - ", errno);
                 perror ("exec");
         }
}


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