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

From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:40:06 -0500

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:05:16 -0500
>> From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>>
>
> 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>