[PATCH] kernel32: Consider the working directory first when launching executables with CreateProcess.

Vijay Kiran Kamuju infyquest at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 03:56:56 CDT 2019


From: "Erich E. Hoover" <erich.e.hoover at gmail.com>

Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23934
From: Erich E. Hoover <erich.e.hoover at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vijay Kiran Kamuju <infyquest at gmail.com>
---
 dlls/kernel32/process.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dlls/kernel32/process.c b/dlls/kernel32/process.c
index 09f0433deb0..39e47390558 100644
--- a/dlls/kernel32/process.c
+++ b/dlls/kernel32/process.c
@@ -439,9 +439,17 @@ static HANDLE open_exe_file( const WCHAR *name, BOOL *is_64bit )
  */
 static BOOL find_exe_file( const WCHAR *name, WCHAR *buffer, int buflen, HANDLE *handle )
 {
+    WCHAR cur_dir[MAX_PATH];
+
     TRACE("looking for %s\n", debugstr_w(name) );
 
-    if (!SearchPathW( NULL, name, exeW, buflen, buffer, NULL ) &&
+    /* The working directory takes precedence over other locations for CreateProcess unless the
+     * 'NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath' environment variable is set (and the executable name
+     * does not contain a backslash). */
+    if ((NeedCurrentDirectoryForExePathW( name ) && GetCurrentDirectoryW( MAX_PATH, cur_dir) &&
+         !SearchPathW( cur_dir, name, exeW, buflen, buffer, NULL )) &&
+        /* not found in the working directory, try the system search path */
+        !SearchPathW( NULL, name, exeW, buflen, buffer, NULL ) &&
         /* no builtin found, try native without extension in case it is a Unix app */
         !SearchPathW( NULL, name, NULL, buflen, buffer, NULL )) return FALSE;
 
-- 
2.17.0




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