From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 00:23:51 -0400
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Subject: Re: spawn* and LFN again
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> > Also, what if 'foo' is a shell script and 'foo.exe' already exists?
> 
> This was a problem Mark (I think) found and corrected lately.  It does
> TRT now.

With Bash 2.05 compiled with libc cvs, the shell script 'foo' is executed. 
However the way libc gets there troubles me. 

__spawnve does find 'foo.exe' and not 'foo'. But it restores the filename to 
'foo' before calling go32_exec. go32_exec finds out it has a shell script so 
it calls script_exec. Now if it didn't wipe the '.exe' part, 'foo.exe' would 
indeed be run.

Mark