Bug #3524: system command should prefer CWD to PATH in windows

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-06-25 trunk 28432) [i386-mingw32]

[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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from within a directory with 'convert.exe' located in it:

D:\installs\ImageMagick-6.6.2-Q16>convert --help | head -n3
Version: ImageMagick 6.6.2-10 2010-06-29 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2010 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP
...

D:\installs\ImageMagick-6.6.2-Q16>irb
irb(main):001:0> convert --help # error messages pops up indicating it is running the first convert found on the path, not convert.exe within the CWD
=> ""

Thanks!
-r
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[runpaint (Run Paint Run Run)]

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It's for security reasons: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Path.html#s12 , http://serverfault.com/questions/98587/ . Presumably, if you want to ignore best practice you can add '.' to your path.
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[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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As Run Paint Run Run says, set "." to PATH by yourself if you
want to shoot your foot.
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