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

[Martin Kutschker]

Xavier Perseguers schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>>>> In $_SERVER I find these variables to be useful:
>>>>
>>>> Path = C:\Programme;C:\WINDOWS\system32
>>>> SystemDrive = C:
>>>> SystemRoot C:\WINDOWS
>>>> windir => C:\WINDOWS
>>>> TEMP = C:\DOKUME~1\Masi\LOKALE~1\Temp
>>>> TMP = C:\DOKUME~1\Masi\LOKALE~1\Temp
>>>> ComSpec = C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
>>>>
>>>> For the default path I wouldn't use $Path itself but use $SytemRoot
>>>> and $SystemRoot.'\system32'.
>>> Thanks for the detailed info. As I don't have Windows myself, could you
>>> provide a modified version of the patch?
>>
>> Yes. But thinking again about it, the change will not change much. In
>> the system directory are only,
>> well, *system* files and binaries. Besides of cmd.exe the web server
>> will probably not find any
>> program of use.
>>
>> We could use the "Path" environment variable, but I think that this
>> might be used for an attack.
> 
> What about asking the few core members running TYPO3 on Windows what
> they actually use and need?

My experience is that t3lib_exec is rarely used and needed. Without a common directory for binaries
 you have to configure the path for all of them individually.

You need diff, imagemagick and the likes.

Masi