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update nearly all FSF copyright year lists to include 2010 Use the same procedure as for 2009, outlined in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/20081
author Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
date Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:31:12 +0100 (2010-01-01)
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1 /* Locating a program in PATH.
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2 Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 Written by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>, 2001.
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5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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8 (at your option) any later version.
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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13 GNU General Public License for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
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19 #ifdef __cplusplus
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20 extern "C" {
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21 #endif
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24 /* Look up a program in the PATH.
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25 Attempt to determine the pathname that would be called by execlp/execvp
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26 of PROGNAME. If successful, return a pathname containing a slash
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27 (either absolute or relative to the current directory). Otherwise,
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28 return PROGNAME unmodified.
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29 Because of the latter case, callers should use execlp/execvp, not
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30 execl/execv on the returned pathname.
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31 The returned string is freshly malloc()ed if it is != PROGNAME. */
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32 extern const char *find_in_path (const char *progname);
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35 #ifdef __cplusplus
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36 }
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37 #endif