Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:12:26 -0400
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> DJ, what does the Cygwin port of Bash do?  Or, rather, what does the
> Cygwin DLL's routines do when Bash invokes them to run `foo'?  Do they
> search for extensions, and if so, for which ones?

If you directly spawn an executable, the search order is this:

.exe
<none>
.com
.cmd
.bat
.dll

It doesn't seem to check if the file already has a "suffix" but with
long file names, you can't just depend on the presence of a dot to
indicate a suffix.