Re: Utility functions from gnome-libs

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Kodis wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:52:28AM +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
> > On 3 Jul 2000, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > > /* locate a program in $PATH, or return NULL if not found */
> > > char *gnome_is_program_in_path (const gchar *program);
> > > This would be renamed to g_is_program_in_path()
> > 
> > rather i'd call it g_find_program_in_path() since it
> > 1) doesn't return a gboolean but a string
> > 2) it can take quite some time to do all the path searching
> 
> It would also be handy to have a more general version -- something like
> 
>   char *g_find_file_in_path(const char *filename, const char *path);
> 
> for finding configuration files and searching MANPATH, MAILPATH, and
> the like.

if you supply it, i'm all for it!

> 
> -- John Kodis.
> 

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ciaoTJ