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: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:05:38 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Managed mounts and .exe files (Was Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension) Message-ID: <20040223090538.GW1587@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20040219232350.GE23994@redhat.com> <6.0.1.1.0.20040220141302.0391ba10@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Feb 21 23:07, Robert R Schneck wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > FWIW, WinNT/2k/XP allow executables to not have a .exe extension. > > I wasn't aware of it, and haven't been able to figure it out in a couple > of minutes of playing around and Googling. How? On NT, the CreateProcess call allows any name, also with no extension, as executable file name. Not so on 9x/Me. 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/