1.7.0-62: segfault when PATH is not set

Mon Oct 19 19:47:00 GMT 2009

On Oct 19 21:18, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> On 2009年10月19日 11:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Strange. I can't reproduce this:
>>>> $ env - PATHOS=/dqd /usr/bin/date
>> Mon Oct 19 11:26:46 WEDT 2009
>>>> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/env
>> PATHOS=/nonexistent
>> SYSTEMROOT=C:\Windows
>> WINDIR=C:\Windows
>>> You're right, it seems that LC_CTYPE is also involved in this. Please try 
> under sh:
>> $ export LC_CTYPE=
> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Mon Oct 19 13:12:40 RDT 2009
>> $ export LC_CTYPE=dummy
> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> $ export LC_CTYPE=C
> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Mon Oct 19 13:12:40 RDT 2009
>> $ export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-15
> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> $ export LC_CTYPE=dummy
> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/date
> Mon Oct 19 13:12:41 RDT 2009
> $ env - PATHOS=/nonexistent /usr/bin/env
> PATHOS=/nonexistent
> SYSTEMROOT=C:\WINNT
> WINDIR=C:\WINNT
>> Hope this helps.

It does. The value of $PATH is used without checking if $PATH
exists. I fixed that in CVS.
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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