Executable name is case sensitive when calling -> unknown program

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, operating-systems

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Reproduce the issue on Windows by invoking false.exe and False.exe from the coreutils bin directory, then trace the executable-name handling for the unknown-program path. Done means executable lookup accepts case variations consistently for the tested coreutils programs and the reported unknown-program message no longer appears.

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Description

Calling C:\Program Files\coreutils\bin\false.exe works.
Calling C:\Program Files\coreutils\bin\False.exe results in:
coreutils: unknown program 'False'

The same is true for all other tested executables.

Noticed this, because my windows terminal profile calls clink inject ... which in turn somewhere calls False which then resulted in this message.

My current workaround is to put "C:\Program Files\coreutils\bin" after "..\Git\usr\bin" in the search path which contains a working false.exe, but my goal is to get rid of the git bin folder from the searchpath at some point.

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