Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:20:08 +0300
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	on Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:12:26 -0400)
Subject:	Re: bash 2.04 build failure?
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> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:12:26 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> > 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.

Sounds a lot like what we do.  Should we change that to match this
more closely?

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