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 Message-ID: <42CF4DC6.5010005@byu.net> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:08:38 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks References: <1120881428.6584.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1120881428.6584.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to fergus on 7/8/2005 9:57 PM: > There must be something special about doing this with a drivename. Yes - /cygdrive is virtual, so drivenames in that directory are managed entirely by cygwin instead of by Windows. Windows-managed files (99% of what you use) don't have any problems. > Can any expert confirm whether I ought to look elsewhere for this > strange appendix? > I admit it's my fault for meddling but it's not that daft an activity to > have pursued, and certainly > ln -s /cygdrive/c /c > must be a fairly common solution to an annoying problem (that of having > to write a lot). Actually, a more common solution is to use "mount" to move the cygdrive prefix to a spelling other than its default (usually /, as mentioned in the FAQ, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC53). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCz03G84KuGfSFAYARAteSAJ97wRNETP62vsdc6PM3mKJQP6abbACglz2B 1pGK+m2JXRdAMaR/dXMNUYs= =qi+j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/