From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:51:30 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: sane_execvp(): ignore non-directory on $PATH
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X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a78550831a42db6896e598cd2a8bfb441a958fc8;p=git.git

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>
---

diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 805d41f93..f9b7db238 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;
 }