X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:48:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ln -s exe magic (coreutils 6.7-2) Message-ID: <20070124094810.GN27843@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <011701c73f43$3d07d270$3e0010ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <20070124043651.GF25379@ns1.anodized.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070124043651.GF25379@ns1.anodized.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jan 23 20:36, Christopher Layne wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:07:17PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > /usr/sbin: ls -l sendmail* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 13 Jan 23 17:40 sendmail -> /usr/bin/exim* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 19 Jan 23 17:29 sendmail.exe -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe* > > > > so that the commands "sendmail" and "sendmail.exe" produce different results, > > cron keeps using exim and if exim is uninstalled then cron misbehaves. > > > > My suggestion is that by default ln -s should not do any magic. If some magic is > > desired, users can define an alias or shell function that adds --enable-exe-magic > > > > Pierre > > Probably just an oversight (in regards to symlinks) in the code handling .exe > vs extentionless executables. It's there to allow both options for an executable to > be named. I'm sure Corinna or Christopher will know what the deal is. This looks rather like a problem with the exe magic in coreutils. FWIW, I never liked the idea to create "foo.exe.lnk" symlinks. They only slow down the symlink processing in Cygwin. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/