From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:13:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] run-command.c: Accept EACCES as command not found
Message-ID: <7vbos5f7ix.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1321912387-4569-1-git-send-email-fransklaver@gmail.com>

Frans Klaver <fransklaver@gmail.com> writes:

> execvp returns ENOENT if a command was not found after searching PATH.
> If path contains a directory that current user has insufficient
> privileges to, EACCES is returned. This may still mean the program
> wasn't found.
>
> If the latter case is encountered, git errors out without giving aliases
> a try,...

Isn't that a *good* thing in general, though, so that the user can
diagnose the breakage in the $PATH and fix it?