X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48EE097B.2010202@bmts.com> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:39:07 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files References: <0MKr6C-1Kl4Ya1pOX-000Qp8@mx.kundenserver.de> <20081002090144.GA23019@calimero.vinschen.de> <20081009100432.GR9289@calimero.vinschen.de> <48EDFDAD.9020407@bmts.com> <20081009130540.GA9289@calimero.vinschen.de> <48EE0478.4020509@byu.net> In-Reply-To: <48EE0478.4020509@byu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com 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 Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/9/2008 7:05 AM: >>> Install seems to strip the .exe extension in the process of copying >>> files to the destination directory. >> Install *copies* files. The resulting filename is not under control of >> Cygwin but exclusively under control of the copying application. This >> is different from rename and link which are OS functions and thus >> implemented in Cygwin. > > What this really means is that I need to add another cygwin-specific patch > in coreutils to make install keep track of .exe magic - if the user > specified a file without the suffix, but the real file has the suffix, > then the target should be created with the suffix (no different than some > of the .exe magic already in mv and cp). Exactly. What happens now is that the .exe extension is simply stripped off during the copy. As I noted before, the Cygwin User's Guide currently implies that install will fail in this scenario. The exe magic seems to be a rich source of headaches. I'm glad somebody smarter than me is looking after it :-) Ralph PS. Sorry for hijacking (not too far) this thread. -- 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/