RFC: sh -c implied .exe suffix patch

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

The attached patch, loosely inspired by a Cygwin specific patch to cp,
solves the following problem:

    $ ls -ld foo*
    drwxr-xr-x    2 jt       Domain U        0 Jul 30 09:15 foo
    -rwxr-xr-x    1 jt       Domain U    17924 Jul 26 15:10 foo.exe

    $ sh -c ./foo
    ./foo: not found

Note that bash does not have this problem:

    $ bash -c ./foo
    hello

After studying the source for ash, bash, and cygwin.  I understand why
it works for bash but not for ash.  Unfortunately, AFAICT, this problem
cannot be solved in the Cygwin DLL.  So, I decided to develop a ash
workaround.  With this patch, ash now behaves like bash for the above
test case:

    $ sh -c ./foo
    hello

Is the ash maintainer willing to accept this patch?

Thanks,
Jason

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