Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:55:54 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New symlinks. Message-ID: <20010301215554.A7181@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010301173204.02448c90@mailhost> <3A9F0AA7.6AFCC739@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A9F0AA7.6AFCC739@yahoo.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:51:19PM -0500 On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:51:19PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: >John Paulson wrote: >> >> $ cat `type -p gcc` | wc >> cat: /usr/bin/gcc: No such file or directory >> 0 0 0 >> >> -- Hmmm... A user might think something broke. I have not done a search >> of the archives to determine how often this asymmetry has been noted >> by users. I don't recall having seen this mentioned in the year or so >> I've been subscribed, but then most of neurons have been fried by MFC... >> > >If you really want to review the negative chatter about this you should >visit the autoconf@gnu.org archives. Yeah, it is sort of embarrassing that Cygwin works this way, IMO. Maybe we should just make foo.exe always == foo if foo does not exist. Right now this is only the case for the stat() call. cgf (Wow, I don't remember this subject being discussed since 1998 or so...) -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple