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[PATCH/RFC] sane_execvp(): ignore non-directory on PATH

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:23
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

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.  By
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.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---

 * We can view this as a follow-up to 38f865c (run-command: treat
   inaccessible directories as ENOENT, 2012-03-30).

 run-command.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 805d41f..f9b7db2 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -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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