From: William A. Rowe Jr <wrowe@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 03:28:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject:   Experimental patch to work around Win32 services defaulting cwd() to
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d55d31c57e14eda7dce31f41d6e546c6448d2755;p=apache

  Experimental patch to work around Win32 services defaulting cwd() to
  c:\win\system32 when invoking new service processes.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@95541 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/server/mpm/winnt/mpm_winnt.c b/server/mpm/winnt/mpm_winnt.c
index b7f9acd42c..9fa66b5863 100644
--- a/server/mpm/winnt/mpm_winnt.c
+++ b/server/mpm/winnt/mpm_winnt.c
@@ -2197,7 +2197,15 @@ void winnt_rewrite_args(process_rec *process)
          * may have extra StartService() command arguments to
          * add for us.
          *
-         * Any other process has a console, so we don't to begin
+         * The SCM will generally invoke the executable with
+         * the c:\win\system32 default directory.  This is very
+         * lethal if folks use ServerRoot /foopath on windows
+         * without a drive letter.  Change to the default root
+         * (path to apache root, above /bin) for safety.
+         */
+        SetCurrentDirectory(def_server_root);
+        
+        /* Any other process has a console, so we don't to begin
          * a Win9x service until the configuration is parsed and
          * any command line errors are reported.
          *