[fpc-devel]Stupid implementation of execlp

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Ondrej Bojar wrote:

> Hi.
>
>   Your implementation of execlp in FPC is really bad.
>
>   It searches for the executable in first six directories of $PATH only.

With reason: Pascal Strings can only contain 255 chars. Anything outside that
range cannot be processed. Since the getenv only returns 255 chars, only
that portion of the path is processed.

We can fix this, but that will be for the 1.1 branch of FPC.

Michael.