On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:

>  because of the need to convert the file names from UTF-16 to
> something the rest of the code can grok.

Well, if I understand correctly there's no need to actually grok the
UTF-16 filenames, just to get past them with a more graceful failure
condition, and I was hoping these other APIs would fail differently.
But if you say there's no joy here I believe it.

> In any case, there's no reason to use any of this just to check
> whether a file by a specific name exists in a directory.

Are you saying you'd just walk along PATH doing a stat() or access()
or equivalent on <dir>/sh.exe?

David

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