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Date: | Sun, 4 Oct 2009 22:19:25 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: symlinks show .exe |
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On Oct 5 09:12, David Antliff wrote: > 2009/10/5 Vincent Rivière <vincent DOT riviere AT freesbee DOT fr>: > > Do you agree this is a bug and it should be fixed ? > > I've got nothing to do with the code, but I am an interested observer. > > In my experience, it should be possible to create symlinks to any > arbitrary target, regardless of whether it actually exists or not. > Therefore, if I create a symlink to "/bin/ls" then I'd expect that to > be the content of the symlink - the automatic behaviour of rewriting > it to "/bin/ls.exe" is unexpected and therefore probably incorrect > according to some "standard" somewhere. The Cygwin symlink(2) call does not add the .exe suffix, neither in Cygwin 1.5, nor in Cygwin 1.7. It looks like a feature of the ln(1) tool from the Cygwin 1.5 coreutils, AFAICS. ln(1) from the Cygwin 1.7 coreutils does also not add a .exe suffix. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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