We have the following bugfix for the 20021216 pretest. I don't want to
make a new release just because of that (on the other hand, I don't want
to let you be uninformed about this bug, too). The file exists in the
texk/kpathsea directory.
Thomas
diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14
--- tex-make.c 14 Dec 2002 12:31:17 -0000 1.13
+++ tex-make.c 17 Dec 2002 07:09:36 -0000 1.14
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@
}
close(childerr);
}
+ /* FIXME: We could/should close all other file descriptors as well. */
/* exec -- on failure a call of _exit(2) it is the only option */
if (execvp(args[0], args))
perror(args[0]);
@@ -283,6 +284,8 @@
/* Free the name if we're not returning it. */
if (fn != ret)
free (fn);
+ } else {
+ ret = NULL;
}
}
#endif
