Re: [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:18:51PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> +int sane_execvp(const char *file, char * const argv[])
> +{
> +	int ret = execvp(file, argv);
> +	if (ret < 0 && errno == EACCES && !file_in_path_is_nonexecutable(file))
> +		errno = ENOENT;
> +	return ret;
> +}

Hmm, this should check for (*file == '/') to handle absolute paths
properly. If you have an absolute path, I would tend to think that we
should never rewrite it into ENOENT (so if you have "/foo/bar", even if
"foo" is inaccessible, ENOENT is still the right response).

-Peff
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