Re^8: system and wildcard expansion?

AFIK, this behaviour is kept even if the shell is not involved.

Apparently not. From win32.c source (circa line 4225):

    /* initial NULL argument to CreateProcess() does a PATH
     * search, but it always first looks in the directory
     * where the current process was started, which behavior
     * is undesirable for backward compatibility.  So we
     * jump through our own hoops by picking out the path
     * we really want it to use. */
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Re^9: system and wildcard expansion? by rovf (Priest) on Nov 12, 2010 at 12:08 UTC
Clever! I didn't notice it, because (out of my dangerous habit when using Unix), I always kept '.' in the PATH... Thanks for pointing this out. -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l]