Function
GLibfind_program_in_path
since: 2.0
Description
Locates the first executable named program
in the user’s path, in the
same way that execvp()
would locate it. Returns an allocated string
with the absolute path name, or NULL
if the program is not found in
the path. If program
is already an absolute path, returns a copy of
program
if program
exists and is executable, and NULL
otherwise.
On Windows, if program
does not have a file type suffix, tries
with the suffixes .exe, .cmd, .bat and .com, and the suffixes in
the PATHEXT
environment variable.
On Windows, it looks for the file in the same way as CreateProcess()
would. This means first in the directory where the executing
program was loaded from, then in the current directory, then in the
Windows 32-bit system directory, then in the Windows directory, and
finally in the directories in the PATH
environment variable. If
the program is found, the return value contains the full name
including the type suffix.
Available since: 2.0