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diff --git a/src/libposixplz/execvep.c b/src/libposixplz/execvep.c
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+/* ISC license. */
+
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <skalibs/bytestr.h>
+#include <skalibs/posixplz.h>
+
+void execvep (char const *file, char const *const *argv, char const *const *envp, char const *path)
+{
+  if (!path) errno = EINVAL ;
+  else if (file[str_chr(file, '/')])
+    execve(file, (char *const *)argv, (char *const *)envp) ; /* execve prototype sucks */
+  else
+  {
+    size_t pathlen = strlen(path) + 1 ;
+    size_t filelen = strlen(file) ;
+    int savederrno = 0 ;
+    while (pathlen)
+    {
+      size_t split = byte_chr(path, pathlen - 1, ':') ;
+      if (split)
+      {
+        char tmp[split + 2 + filelen] ;
+        memcpy(tmp, path, split) ;
+        tmp[split] = '/' ;
+        memcpy(tmp + split + 1, file, filelen + 1) ;
+        execve(tmp, (char *const *)argv, (char *const *)envp) ;
+        if (errno != ENOENT)
+        {
+          savederrno = errno ;
+          if ((errno != EACCES) && (errno != EPERM) && (errno != EISDIR)) break ;
+        }
+      }
+      path += split+1 ; pathlen -= split+1 ;
+    }
+    if (savederrno) errno = savederrno ;
+  }
+}