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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Apparent bug in 'make': hyphen treated as delimiter in $PATH
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 23:56:40 EST
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> (A mention of the SVR2's "make" having a version of "execvp" which treats
> '-' as well as ':' as separators in $PATH, which causes nasty problems
> with directories whose names contain hyphens)

This problem also exists in the 4.2BSD version of "execvp" in the standard
C library.  I suspect it's a holdover from some old (pre-V7) system which
used '-' instead of ':' as a separator, and hasn't been completely expunged
from the system yet.  Beware - it may still be hiding somewhere...

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy