[TYPO3-core] RFC #12547: Bug: Default paths for Windows are not properly defined

[Francois Suter]

This is an SVN patch request.

Type: Bugfix

Bugtracker references:
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=12547

Branches:
Trunk (4.2?)

Problem:
This bug appeared for someone while looking at the new "Installed 
services" report. In the list of binary search paths on a Windows 
server, paths like /usr/bin/ and /perl/bin/ are searched for (and not 
found, obviously).
This is actually a Core bug, which comes from method 
t3lib_exec::_getPaths() which had a TODO mentioning that proper default 
paths for Windows should be defined.

Solution:
The attached patch defines C:/Windows/ and C:/WINDOWS/System32/ as 
default paths for Windows. Open questions are:

1) should other paths be added for this platform?
2) are there issues with case-sensitivity?

As I don't have a Windows machine I can't test in more details.

Notes:
I don't know if this patch should be applied to older branches. I leave 
that up to the respective RMs. It's definitely not critical, so I 
wouldn't bother.

Cheers

-- 

Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch

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