X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:26:18 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution Message-ID: <20080416092618.GP23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20080416064211.40A7F84237@pessard.research.canon.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080416064211.40A7F84237@pessard.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 Apr 16 16:42, Luke Kendall wrote: > Suppose that when it does a stat() on "fred", before it decides that > it's found the right file to exec, it should check that "fred" isn't a A stat() call can't know for what purpose it has been called. Calling stat on "foo", it will return the information for "foo" first, if it exists. Only if it not exists it tries "foo.exe" or "foo.lnk". 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/