Subject: bug#35241: 27.0.50; Tramp can't decrypt .authinfo.gpg in Win 10

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:03:11 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:20:17 -0400
> Cc: Shuguang Sun <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> 
> The Windows shell acts as if "." is part of PATH regardless, as far
> as I can tell.

It isn't the shell, it's how executable search works on the OS level.