Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:35:29 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem in executable file mechanism Message-ID: <20030416163529.GQ11137@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <232810-220034316154340659@M2W090.mail2web.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:56:32AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Try "strace sh -c ls". > Igor Well... let's get serious. What do you expect? Think UNIX. The executable is 'ls'. The directory is 'ls'. This is only possible on Windows because the executables have this .exe suffix. On UNIX this won't be a problem since there wouldn't be two files with the same name in a directory. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/