X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45B76311.1000009@byu.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:45:53 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ln -s exe magic (coreutils 6.7-2) References: <011701c73f43$3d07d270$3e0010ac@wirelessworld.airvananet.com> <20070124043651.GF25379@ns1.anodized.com> <20070124094810.GN27843@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20070124094810.GN27843@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 1/24/2007 2:48 AM: > > 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. Should we get rid of the special processing in cygwin 1.7.0? Right now, ./foo could invoke one of ./foo, ./foo.exe, ./foo.lnk, or ./foo.exe.lnk. Removing support for foo.exe.lnk simplifies this case - when checking for foo, you only have two fallbacks instead of three. You can also do ./foo.exe, which invokes ./foo.exe or ./foo.exe.lnk. But here, the .lnk fallback is already covered. I'm having a tough time thinking of any scenarios that will break in a new installation if we drop .exe.lnk support; and I'm only slightly worried that existing cases, such as Pierre's example of /usr/sbin/sendmail.lnk vs. /usr/sbin/sendmail.exe.lnk, tripping up users. I would be in favor of such a change, especially since we can tie it to the fact that we are bumping the major version number. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFt2MR84KuGfSFAYARAtHGAKCSYIBGNw/FhPxNZcD8g3lxQ+rNCACePOxT 9Myjbf683bvw4JTjr7te5lQ= =/Jgu -----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/