bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32

[Sam Steingold]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:05:16 -0500
>> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
>> Cc: 7784@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>
> Could you please describe the specific use-case where this issue got
> in your way?  Because otherwise this discussion sounds a bit academic
> to me.

when I try to use cygwin in native windows emacs, this works for
binaries but not for scripts.
e.g., using VC with cygwin-provided bzr and hg does not work.
there is no reason for this not to work except for the
check_executable()'s return value.


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Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>