id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
300	Make spawnvpe support extension-less executables	dmik		"The current version of `spawnpe()` unconditionally adds an `.exe` extension to the program name if it appears to have no extension and then performs a search along PATH. As a result, if there is a program that has no extension (e.g. a bash/perl script without the `.sh` extension which is very common), such a program will never be found by this function.

Currently, this limitation may be worked around by creating a symlink to the program that has `.exe` on the end — this symlink will make `spanwpe()` happy. However, this workaround has several disadvantages: 

 1. It requires an additional file (FS pollution and such).
 2. It fulls CMD.EXE which is unable to process symlinks and will just fail.
"	defect	closed	normal	libc-0.6.6	libc	0.6.5	normal	duplicate