Re: executable-find in files.el

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Fine, but as long as noone changes call-process to do something
> meaningful when requested to execute a file which is only available
> via a file-name-handler, I think we should stick to 1 because I
> think it's more important to match the behavior of call-process (as
> I wrote in the comment).
>
> But, really, this is all academic anyway since I don't know of anyone who
> has funny file-name-handled directories on her exec-path.

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