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According to Jim Meyering on 11/19/2009 2:18 AM:
> This was introduced by 0cc0424119ec66c9005fb905cc1001a64b978ce3,
> to avoid test failures on Cygwin.  Unfortunately, if you have an insecure
> PATH, you now lose on Linux, even though those tests don't search
> PATH at all.  Before, PATH was simply unset, but that wasn't portable
> to Cygwin.
> 
> Here's a patch that avoids failure even if you have
> an insecure PATH directory, and should also work on Cygwin:

In addition to the nits you've already addressed...

> +# Taint checking requires a sanitized $PATH.  This script performs no $PATH
> +# search, so on most Unix-based systems, it is fine simply to clear 
> $ENV{PATH}.
> +# However, on Cygwin, it's used to find cygwin.dll, so set it.

s/cygwin.dll/cygwin1.dll/

> +$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';

I confirmed that this does indeed pass on cygwin.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             e...@byu.net
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