From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:44:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git: continue alias lookup on EACCES errors
Message-ID: <7vehsctn7h.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120328210407.GC10174@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Regarding the name, I pulled it from the linux-manpages execvp(3), since
> this is supposed to be compatible. POSIX uses the even worse "path" as
> the first element. But there is no reason we have to follow those naming
> conventions.

Let me take that back.  We are checking if there is a non-command in a
directory that is somewhere on the PATH, so calling it file like you did
is a lot saner than calling it cmd.