Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BD43F41.6FCAFB94@syntrex.com> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:46:09 +0200 From: Pavel Tsekov Organization: Syntrex Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Wilson CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: more info on execvp problem References: <3BD3EA44.FF96A58A@syntrex.com> <20011022112817.C7609@redhat.com> <3BD43CF4.2611ABC3@syntrex.com> <3BD43DE9.9060205@ece.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Wilson wrote: > > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > I was sure there will be a response like this - in short since as we > > both > > agree is posix internally (if noone messed with it) - you get this as > > result > > of getenv("PATH"): > > > > c:/jdk1.3.1/bin:/usr/local/bin:...:c:/usr/local/emacs/bin > > Listen carefully: as Chris has already pointed out, that is NOT a posix > path. THIS is a posix path: > > /cygdrive/c/jdk1.3.1/bin:/usr/local/bin:...:/cygdrive/c/usr/local/emacs/bin Now as I see a hostility in you statement I would suggest you to fire you debbuger and try the little test found in my first e-mail: I try to explain that the first "c" is not drive C: Consider the following DOS style PATH: C;C:;C:\WINNT\System32 for exmaple this is 1. C directory C in current directory 2. C: for drive C: root folder now put this path in PATH launch the debugger and see what is the output of getenv > > Or, if you have mounted C:\ as /c (like I do on my boxes): > > /c/jdk1.3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:...:/c/usr/local/emacs/bin > > See? There are NO ':' characters EXCEPT the path delimiters in a POSIX > PATH variable. > > --Chuck > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/