Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/28/14:52:20
Larry Hall wrote:
>>./foo.sh
>>mv foo.sh foo.exe
>>./foo.exe
>>
>>The first foo.sh works fine. The second... well, it's entertaining.
>>I have to kill the window, ^C is ignored.
>
> Well, ^C worked for me, though the terminal then would not respond to
> any other input. Maybe that's what you meant by "it's entertaining".
I wouldn't expect the same results everywhere, but when
I try it, the scroll bar goes away, and the screen is filled
with falling snow.
>>Now, I know one shouldn't do nasty tricks like that, but
>>I ran into it very innocently. I was trying to make a distcc
>>masquerade directory on cygwin; my technique has been to
>>create shell scripts with the same name as the real app
>>that set a few variables and run a different app with the
>>original commandline as arguments. On cygwin, the original
>>app was named something.exe, so using my usual technique, I
>>created a shell script named something.exe, and kerblooie!
>
> Yes, this is a known issue. It's the same old problem one would expect
> to have on a system that relies on the filename to determine what it
> should do with the file. You'd see something similar with a .bat/.exe
> file combination in Windows, unless I'm misinterpreting what you're
> saying..
Yes, except that since the exec is being done by Cygwin,
you'd expect it to maybe pay attention to the #! line
before trusting the .exe suffix. But since #! isn't
a Posix requirement, Cygwin is well within its rights to
ignore it in this case.
(cf. http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ )
Anyway, my scripts now strip off .exe where appropriate
(i.e. when naming wrapper scripts) and add the missing
.exe where appropriate (i.e. when trying to remove files),
and that works fine.
- Dan
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