guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) (01/18/85)
> (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