Re: [PATCH v2] mingw: simplify PATH handling

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Hi René,

On Sat, 20 May 2017, René Scharfe wrote:

> On Windows the environment variable PATH contains a semicolon-separated
> list of directories to search for, in order, when looking for the
> location of a binary to run.  get_path_split() parses it and returns an
> array of string copies, which is iterated by path_lookup(), which in
> turn passes each entry to lookup_prog().
> 
> Change lookup_prog() to take the directory name as a length-limited
> string instead of as a NUL-terminated one and parse PATH directly in
> path_lookup().  This avoids memory allocations, simplifying the code.
> 
> Helped-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx>

ACK.

> Rebased against Junio's master, fixed string overrun.  Can hold and
> resubmit in a few months if it gets in the way right now.

I am in favor of getting this in as soon as possible.

Ciao,
Dscho

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