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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3AF7ED4B.3E120086@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 08:57:47 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Cygwin Users X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Users CC: "Karr, David" Subject: Re: Status on issue with PATH ignoring scripts with same name as exesin 1.3.1? References: <2C08D4EECBDED41184BB00D0B747334202FB437B@exchanger.cacheflow.com> <3AF7EB79.1A180273@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Earnie Boyd wrote: > > "Karr, David" wrote: > > > > I haven't reexamined this issue in several days. I have "wrapper" scripts > > with the same name as exes later in the path. This worked fine in 1.1.8, > > but now that I'm trying to use 1.3.1, it doesn't work anymore. When the > > shell does a PATH search, it ignores the script and just uses the exe. I'm > > just looking for some information on this. I can downgrade my cygwin1.dll > > to 1.1.8 for now. > > > > Why would anyone depend on this working? It is simply an implementation > specific issue. I suggest instead of downgrading that you rename your > scripts. The simple reason is that Cygwin stat's foo for foo.exe and if > foo.exe is what is being executed by the shell then IMNSHO it's correct > the way it is now and broken before. > Oh, if you end the name with a period then it executes the script instead of the exe. E.G.: I have a program foo.exe that output bar. I have a script foo that echoes foo. If I execute `foo' I get bar but if I execute `foo.' I get foo. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple