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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:04:06 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Stromberg on Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:43:11 +0100 (MET))
Subject: Re: elefunt results
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> From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:43:11 +0100 (MET)
> 
> Just to verify I'm not blind or something: you do not have . in the
> PATH, right?
> 
> If you make some little program in tmp/ say silly.exe and go there and
> type "silly" and "silly.exe" it says command not found, right?
> 
> If not, then it looks like your bash is broken... (Unlikely.)

Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't Bash call __spawnve to run
a program whose name doesn't constitute a full path to the executable
file?  If it does, isn't it true that our __spawnve _always_ searches
the current directory first for relative file names?

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