X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:02:21 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <30013.5407982909$1222878928@news.gmane.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 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 * Herb Maeder (Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:27:25 -0700) > With a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla Vista system, I see that > the 'mv' command appends a .exe extension to the destination file for any > source files that have a .bat or .com extensions. > > To reproduce: > > % mkdir foobar > % touch foo.bat > % mv foo.bat foobar > % ls foobar > foo.bat.exe > > Same goes for .com files. And if a directory is moved any .bat or .com > files will be renamed to .bat.exe and .com.exe in the destination > directory. I see this with at least the cygwin-1.7.0-29 and and > cygwin-1.7.0-30 dlls. > > A cygwin-1.5 install on Vista does not add the .exe extension. > > I believe that this should be easily reproducible. But if not, I can > provide more details. I can confirm that but I'm not so sure it is mv itself. I've seen these kind of files on my iPod (where I rsync to from my USB drive) so I think it might be the cygwin1.dll itself... Thorsten -- 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/