Re: [PATCH] cygwin/mingw: binary wrapper fails when invoked via $PATH

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> Shall the wrapper code be portable, or narrowly tailored to the
> platforms that currently need binary wrappers?
>
> If you want portable, then my way is right.  If you want a narrowly
> tailored solution (simpler code, easier maintainability -- at least
> until you need to port similar functionality to non-windows, lower
> probability of bugs) then your way is right.
>
> So, it's a policy decision -- and maintainers make policy, not
> contributors.  I'm a contributor, you're a maintainer.
>
> What's your pleasure?

Based on your explanation that Microsoft brain-damage has been safely
moved out of the way, I prefer your Unixish way.

By the way, most Unix shells cache the location of executables so it
should not be necessary for them to stat through the directory tree
more than once in order to locate programs.

Bob
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