Doesn't find executables in case-sensitive directory on Windows #57
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Checks for both upper-case and lower-case file extensions. This is to support case-sensitive directories on Windows. Mixed-case file extensions still won't work, but those are rare enough that I don't think it's worth the performance cost to check those as well. Closes npm#57
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Windows now features per-directory case-sensitivity. This is explained here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/02/28/per-directory-case-sensitivity-and-wsl/
A directory created in the Windows Subsystem for Linux will be case-sensitive by default.
This library will read the
PathExtenvironment variable to find file extensions, and try appending them to the input path one-by-one until it finds a match. The file extensions listed inPathExtare all upper-case.As a result, the
isexecheck will always return false when the file extension of the executable file is lower-case.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: