From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vasiliy Yeremeyev Subject: [BUG] Directory probing for aliases Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:22:45 +0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 11 12:22:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TMFur-00081q-SU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:22:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755779Ab2JKKWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:22:47 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:44355 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758393Ab2JKKWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:22:47 -0400 Received: by mail-qc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id d3so1172908qch.19 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Q/vOtz4pVIJ2IPxyx7Y2HU4B7sBYTv5knHul0mfL15M=; b=w7qI5kW+1p1xg3PrbdOh5yrUV0ziFGidVzHjDiGOX0o/QcvCEs8YN4ptK2VEfnSO5c Ib3gfkQVXQY4ySQSlulfgGOEJQBtHzwaJllK8Ll+1rUu1RpDnPdnGHCmIjb5REHrPImO riUPsWZzA112gMRTWnKhnK7Oc96FmOsofTdl3YjQoaDHD+maf6CJkdthUegSkNGB0ztx 9iMPPDWuXxUHgySxGYl/8E2SAMGNIxTslzk9zwMvyCAp6xiheKXqtX598w+DeRUxMt5E aXmiZO1f3nIGobifqLhBEwRrBV7mC5uxDLVYowinp1gTprPJ++LnoPhmX5YreNJu9SMj crgA== Received: by 10.224.193.193 with SMTP id dv1mr980808qab.17.1349950965459; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.73.230 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2012 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Git aliases stop working when user doesn't have permissions to any directory within $PATH list: % git config alias.br branch % git br fatal: cannot exec 'git-br': Permission denied Problem seems to be in directories probing: execve("/usr/libexec/git-core/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/home/vayerx/bin/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/local/bin/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/bin/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/bin/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/opt/bin/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.6.3/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) execve("/usr/games/bin/git-br", ["git-br"], [/* 76 vars */]) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, "fatal: ", 7fatal: ) = 7 write(2, "cannot exec 'git-br': Permission"..., 39cannot exec 'git-br': Permission denied) = 39 (user doesn't have access to '/usr/games/bin' directory) Everything works fine if '/usr/games/bin' is not listed in $PATH variable. Standard/built-in git commands work fine regardless of $PATH variable. -- With Best Regards, Vasiliy Yeremeyev