Patch 976520 reworks several of the details involved with

        startup/initialization of the Tcl library, focused on the
        activities of Tcl_FindExecutable().

        * generic/tclIO.c:      Removed bogus claim in comment that
        encoding "iso8859-1" is "built-in" to Tcl.

        * generic/tclInt.h:     Created a new struct ProcessGlobalValue,
        * generic/tclUtil.c:    routines Tcl(Get|Set)ProcessGlobalValue,
        and function type TclInitProcessGlobalValueProc.  Together, these
        take care of the housekeeping for "values" (things that can be
        held in a Tcl_Obj) that are global across a whole process.  That is,
        they are shared among multiple threads, and epoch and mutex
        protection must govern the validity of cached copies maintained
        in each thread.

        * generic/tclNotify.c:  Modified TclInitNotifier() to tolerate
        being called multiple times in the same thread.

        * generic/tclEvent.c:   Dropped the unused argv0 argument to
        TclInitSubsystems().  Removed machinery to unsure only one
        TclInitNotifier() call per thread, now that that is safe.
        Converted Tcl(Get|Set)LibraryPath to use a ProcessGlobalValue,
        and moved them to tclEncoding.c.
        * generic/tclBasic.c:   Updated caller.

        * generic/tclInt.h:     TclpFindExecutable now returns void.
        * unix/tclUnixFile.c:
        * win/tclWinFile.c:
        * win/tclWinPipe.c:

        * generic/tclEncoding.c: Built new encoding search initialization
        on a foundation of ProcessGlobalValues, exposing new routines
        Tcl(Get|Set)EncodingSearchPath.  A cache of a map from encoding name
        to directory pathname keeps track of where encodings are available
        for loading.  Tcl_FindExecutable greatly simplified into just
        three function calls.  The "library path" is now misnamed, as its
        only remaining purpose is as a foundation for the default encoding
        search path.

        * generic/tclInterp.c:  Inlined the initScript that is evaluated
        by Tcl_Init().  Added verification after initScript evaluation
        that Tcl can find its installed *.enc files, and that it has
        initialized [encoding system] in agreement with what the environment
        expects.  [tclInit] no longer driven by the value of $::tcl_libPath;
        it largely constructs its own search path now, rather than attempt
        to share one with the encoding system.

        * unix/tclUnixInit.c:   TclpSetInitialEncodings factored so that a new
        * win/tclWinInit.c:     routine TclpGetEncodingNameFromEnvironment
        can reveal that Tcl thinks the [encoding system] should be, even
        when an incomplete encoding search path, or a missing *.enc file
        won't allow that initialization to succeed.  TclpInitLibraryPath
        reworked as an initializer of a ProcessGlobalValue.

        * unix/tclUnixTest.c:   Update implementations of [testfindexecutable],
        [testgetdefenc], and [testsetdefenc].

        * tests/unixInit.test:  Corrected tests to operate properly even
        when a value of TCL_LIBRARY is required to find encodings.

        * generic/tclInt.decls: New internal stubs: TclGetEncodingSearchPath,
        TclSetEncodingSearchPath, TclpGetEncodingNameFromEnvironment.  These
        are candidates for public exposure by future TIPs.

        * generic/tclIntDecls.h:        make genstubs
        * generic/tclStubInit.c:

        * generic/tclTest.c:    Updated [testencoding] to use
        * tests/encoding.test:  Tcl(Get|Set)EncodingSearchPath.  Updated tests.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/win/tclWinFile.c b/win/tclWinFile.c
index ca2eeba..8c39505 100644
--- a/win/tclWinFile.c
+++ b/win/tclWinFile.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
  * of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
  *
- * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclWinFile.c,v 1.70 2004/11/02 12:13:36 vincentdarley Exp $
+ * RCS: @(#) $Id: tclWinFile.c,v 1.71 2004/11/30 19:34:51 dgp Exp $
  */
 
 //#define _WIN32_WINNT  0x0500
@@ -691,19 +691,20 @@ NativeWriteReparse(LinkDirectory, buffer)
  *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 
-char *
+void
 TclpFindExecutable(argv0)
     CONST char *argv0;		/* The value of the application's argv[0]
 				 * (native). */
 {
     WCHAR wName[MAX_PATH];
     char name[MAX_PATH * TCL_UTF_MAX];
+    Tcl_DString ds;
 
     if (argv0 == NULL) {
-	return NULL;
+	return;
     }
     if (tclNativeExecutableName != NULL) {
-	return tclNativeExecutableName;
+	return;
     }
 
     /*
@@ -719,12 +720,13 @@ TclpFindExecutable(argv0)
 	MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, name, -1, wName, MAX_PATH);
     }
     WideCharToMultiByte(CP_UTF8, 0, wName, -1, name, sizeof(name), NULL, NULL);
+    TclWinNoBackslash(name);
 
-    tclNativeExecutableName = ckalloc((unsigned) (strlen(name) + 1));
-    strcpy(tclNativeExecutableName, name);
-
-    TclWinNoBackslash(tclNativeExecutableName);
-    return tclNativeExecutableName;
+    Tcl_UtfToExternalDString(NULL, name, -1, &ds);
+    tclNativeExecutableName = ckalloc((unsigned) (Tcl_DStringLength(&ds) + 1));
+    strcpy(tclNativeExecutableName, Tcl_DStringValue(&ds));
+    Tcl_DStringFree(&ds);
+    Tcl_GetNameOfExecutable();
 }
 
 /*