http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19856 --- Comment #3 from Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com> 2009-08-27 20:11:47 --- Reproducible with a very small C program: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(int argc, char **argv, char **env) { char *newargv[] = { "/usr/sbin/update-alternatives", NULL }; char *newenviron[] = { NULL }; execve("/usr/sbin/update-alternatives", newargv, env); perror("Returned? "); } cygwin's strace on that test app provides a useful clue. On cygwin/Windows, that prints the usage message for update-alternatives. On cygwin/wine, it screws up, thinks update-alternatives is a shell script, and tries to run it via sh (without -c). The problem seems to be that on cygwin/windows, the path is canonicalized with a .exe on the end; that doesn't happen on wine for some reason. I suspect path_conv::check() and path_conv::add_ext_from_sym() in http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc?cvsroot=src are involved but it's hard to read. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.winehq.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email Do not reply to this email, post in Bugzilla using the above URL to reply. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching all bug changes.