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/* Locating a program in PATH.
   Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
   any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
   Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */


#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include "config.h"
#endif

/* Specification.  */
#include "findprog.h"

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
# include <unistd.h>
#endif

#include "xmalloc.h"
#include "system.h"


const char *
find_in_path (progname)
     const char *progname;
{
#if defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__ || defined __EMX__ || defined __DJGPP__
  /* Win32, OS/2, DOS */
  /* The searching rules with .COM, .EXE, .BAT, .CMD etc. suffixes are
     too complicated.  Leave it to the OS.  */
  return progname;
#else
  /* Unix */
  char *path;
  char *dir;
  char *cp;

  if (strchr (progname, '/') != NULL)
    /* If progname contains a slash, it is either absolute or relative to
       the current directory.  PATH is not used.  */
    return progname;

  path = getenv ("PATH");
  if (path == NULL || *path == '\0')
    /* If PATH is not set, the default search path is implementation
       dependent.  */
    return progname;

  /* Make a copy, to prepare for destructive modifications.  */
  path = xstrdup (path);
  for (dir = path; ; dir = cp + 1)
    {
      int last;
      char *progpathname;

      /* Extract next directory in PATH.  */
      for (cp = dir; *cp != '\0' && *cp != ':'; cp++);
      last = (*cp == '\0');
      *cp = '\0';

      /* Empty PATH components designate the current directory.  */
      if (dir == cp)
	dir = ".";

      /* Concatenate dir and progname.  */
      progpathname = concatenated_pathname (dir, progname, NULL);

      /* This program is usually not installed setuid or setgid, therefore
	 it is ok to call access() despite its design flaw.  */
      if (access (progpathname, X_OK) == 0)
	{
	  /* Found!  */
	  if (strcmp (progpathname, progname) == 0)
	    {
	      free (progpathname);

	      /* Add the "./" prefix for real, that concatenated_pathname()
		 optimized away.  */
	      progpathname = xmalloc (2 + strlen (progname) + 1);
	      progpathname[0] = '.';
	      progpathname[1] = '/';
	      memcpy (progpathname + 2, progname, strlen (progname) + 1);
	    }

	  free (path);
	  return progpathname;
	}

      free (progpathname);

      if (last)
	break;
    }

  /* Not found in PATH.  An error will be signalled at the first call.  */
  free (path);
  return progname;
#endif
}