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From: | "Conrad Scott" <Conrad DOT Scott AT dsl DOT pipex DOT com> |
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Subject: | stat vs open w/ ".exe" |
Date: | Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:28:09 +0100 |
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I think this has been discussed before but I've searched the mailing lists to no avail, so here goes. If you *stat* a file with no suffix, e.g. /bin/bash, it will succeed if there is a file /bin/bash.exe. If you *open* a file with no suffix, it doesn't succeed in that case. (So "ls /bin/bash" succeeds and "strings /bin/bash" fails.) In other words, stat(2) also checks for the file with a .exe extension, while open(2) doesn't. The difference comes down to the call to cygheap->fdtab.build_fhandler_from_name() in syscalls.cc:_open() vs that in syscalls.cc:stat_worker(). Is this a bug or a deliberate decision? and if the latter, why so? // Conrad
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