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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/w32spawn.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/w32spawn.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/w32spawn.h b/lib/w32spawn.h index 7ebbb4c58e..9ebf5bc49c 100644 --- a/lib/w32spawn.h +++ b/lib/w32spawn.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* Auxiliary functions for the creation of subprocesses. Native Woe32 API. - Copyright (C) 2003, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2003, 2006-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -91,7 +91,15 @@ prepare_spawn (char **argv) ; /* Allocate new argument vector. */ - new_argv = XNMALLOC (argc + 1, char *); + new_argv = XNMALLOC (1 + argc + 1, char *); + + /* Add an element upfront that can be used when argv[0] turns out to be a + script, not a program. + On Unix, this would be "/bin/sh". On native Windows, "sh" is actually + "sh.exe". We have to omit the directory part and rely on the search in + PATH, because the mingw "mount points" are not visible inside Win32 + CreateProcess(). */ + *new_argv++ = "sh.exe"; /* Put quoted arguments into the new argument vector. */ for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) |