Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:25:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: bash binary uploaded Feb. 18th
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> I've uploaded a new binary that fixes the problem of Bash crashing 
> when PATH_SEPARATOR=: .

I found a strange problem with this version.  Suppose you have a
directory with two files: foo.site and foo.bat.  Now, if I chdir into
that directory and type "./foo.site", I actually see `foo.bat' being
run!  It's almost as if Bash were stripping the extension and then
looking for the executable without the extension.

This is from a real-life case: the DJGPP build procedures for some GNU
packages use a special config.site file to load some DJGPP-specific
definitions, so this problem precludes me from building those
packages, since there's also a config.bat file in that directory.