Raymond Toy wrote:
> Gisle> On the other hand, I find the behaviour nonintuitive, since
> ./dir/myprog
> Gisle> would run the program in a shell regardless of path, while the
> equivalent
> Gisle> (ext:run-program "./dir/myprog" '()) won't, unless you have "." in
> the path.
> Gisle> (Which you don't want in most cases)
>
>This is something that could be added if people really want this
>ability. I've never had a need for it, myself, though.
>
>Ray
>
I think it would be least surprising if PATH were not searched when the
path is provided by the user.
That's how the shell works. PATH is searched for the command ls, but
not for /bin/ls, ./ls, bin/ls, or ./bin/ls.
If run-program didn't search the PATH, the user could always use the
shell for that:
(ext:run-program "/bin/sh" (list "-c" "ls"))
Regards,
Craig Ludington
