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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Problems with .exe files Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:02:18 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <000201c3937f$a3fd6c10$5b08c69b@irsl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <000201c3937f$a3fd6c10$5b08c69b@irsl.org> Kris Thielemans wrote: >Hi > >Since upgrading cygwin a few days ago, I can no longer cp .exe files if I don't use the .exe suffix. I can reproduce this as follows: > >$ mkdir a >$ touch t.exe >$ cp t a >cp: `t' and `a/t' are the same file >$ cp t somenonexistingfilename >cp: 't' and 'somenonexistingfilename' are the same file > >I also have a problem with rm (and maybe others) > >$ rm t >rm: cannot unlink `t': No such file or directory > > >Note that as soon as I add the .exe suffix, everthing works fine >$ cp t.exe a > Why would you think that you can cp t as just "t" but you'd have to touch "t.exe"? The real name of the the file is t.exe, for touch, cp, rm, etc. The only time that just "t" suffices is for exec. -- Do witches run spell checkers? -- 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/