[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1100932 ] getenv chews PATH

Bugs item #1100932, was opened at 2005-01-12 06:44
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>Category: MSYS
>Group: Aged issue
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Angus Leeming (angus_leeming)
>Assigned to: Cesar Strauss (cstrauss)
Summary: getenv chews PATH

Initial Comment:
OS: Windows XP
gcc 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
GNU ld version 2.15.91 20040904
Installation:
Dec 13 09:19 MSYS-1.0.10.exe
Dec 13 08:59 MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
Dec 13 09:08 binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1.tar
Dec 13 09:13 gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar
Dec 13 09:16 gcc-g++-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar
Dec 13 09:00 mingw-runtime-3.5.tar
Dec 13 09:02 mingw-utils-0.3.tar
Dec 13 09:22 msys-autoconf-2.59.tar
Dec 13 09:23 msys-automake-1.8.2.tar
Dec 13 09:24 msys-libtool-1.5.tar
Dec 13 09:29 msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
Dec 13 09:04 w32api-3.1.tar
Build environment is MSYS
$ uname -a
MINGW32_NT-5.1 BORIS 1.0.10(0.46/3/2) 2004-03-15 07:17
i686 unknown

From include/_mingw.h:
# define __MSVCRT_VERSION__ 0x0600

#define __MINGW32_VERSION 3.5
#define __MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define __MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION 5

From include/w32api.h
#define __W32API_VERSION 3.1
#define __W32API_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define __W32API_MINOR_VERSION 1

The Bug report itself!
getenv bug with a PATH containing a quoted entry

This might be a corner case, but I thought I'd flag it
up anyway. It appears that getenv is chewing up my PATH.

From a DOS cmd prompt, my PATH environment variable is:

J:\MINSYS\HOME\ANGUS> echo %PATH%
C:\PROGRA~1\Perl\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;
C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
"C:\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton Ghost\"

Note that the last entry here is enclosed in quotes.
It's not me who put that entry in. I guess that it's
safe to assume that Norton knew what they were doing.

Doing the same thing from a MinSYS terminal:

$ echo $PATH
.:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/Program
Files/Perl/bin/:
/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:
"C:/Program Files/Norton SystemWorks/Norton Ghost/"

Ie, all is 'translated' as expected. Note that the
quoted entry is not translated but is not mangled either.

However, all is not well when I try and grab the path
using getenv:

$ cat path.C
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
        char const * const path = getenv("PATH");
        std::cout << "PATH is " << path << std::endl;

        return 0;
}

$ g++ -o path path.C
$ ./path
PATH is .;J:\MinSYS\local\bin;j:\mingw\bin;
J:\MinSYS\bin;c:\Program Files\Perl\bin\;
c:\WINDOWS\system32;c:\WINDOWS;c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;
"C;J:\MinSYS\Program Files\Norton SystemWorks\Norton
Ghost\"

See what nastiness it's done to the quoted entry?

Regards,
Angus



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>Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2013-01-11 10:20

Message:
Cesar, please confirm that this issue is fixed.

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