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sane_execvp(): ignore non-directory on $PATH

When you have a non-directory on your PATH, a funny thing happens:

	$ PATH=$PATH:/bin/sh git foo
	fatal: cannot exec 'git-foo': Not a directory?

Worse yet, as real commands always take precedence over aliases,
this behaviour interacts rather badly with them:

	$ PATH=$PATH:/bin/sh git -c alias.foo=show git foo -s
	fatal: cannot exec 'git-foo': Not a directory?

This is because an ENOTDIR error from the underlying execvp(2) is
reported back to the caller of our sane_execvp() wrapper as-is.

Translating it to ENOENT, just like the case where we _might_ have
the command in an unreadable directory, fixes it.  Without an alias,
we would get

	git: 'foo' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

and we use the 'foo' alias when it is available, of course.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
maint
Junio C Hamano 13 years ago
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      run-command.c

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run-command.c

@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ int sane_execvp(const char *file, char * const argv[]) @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ int sane_execvp(const char *file, char * const argv[])
*/
if (errno == EACCES && !strchr(file, '/'))
errno = exists_in_PATH(file) ? EACCES : ENOENT;
else if (errno == ENOTDIR && !strchr(file, '/'))
errno = ENOENT;
return -1;
}


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