From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 15:28:30 -0400
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Subject: Re: __dosexec_find_on_path question
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Alright, here's a new idea (for Bash to use libc and not reinvent it):
Create a flag, perhaps with the name __spawn_flags, that includes a flag 
indicating that no extension search should be tried if the filename as-is 
exists. From my experiments with dosexec.c, this check need only done in 
__spawnve to DTRT for Unix script files.

Another idea is a call to _check_v2_prog in __spawnve before doing the 
extension search and if a shell script is found, call script_exec.

Mark