X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:31:03 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar deletes .exe files on extraction Message-ID: <20090810153102.GT3204@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <88A93D0EBE3347F781BD7E3C6774C53F@multiplay.co.uk> <20090810131136.GO3204@calimero.vinschen.de> <77114E9D8D2443489640638F57F712B9@multiplay.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <77114E9D8D2443489640638F57F712B9@multiplay.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 Aug 10 16:24, Steven Hartland wrote: > In this example the result was nothing worked as the myexe is a none native > binary only myexe.exe is a windows exe, but I wouldnt be surprised if there > are cases where you have and exe and a data file with the name the same > just the app with the .exe with the extension. But it will definitely not be part of Cygwin and it shouldn't happen in a Cygwin environment. > It might be a silly idea but would it potentially be an option to alter > this behaviour based on an cygwin environment variable, so that the past > behaviour is restored for wider compatibility. Sorry, but no. The switch existed in 1.5.25 (CYGWIN=transparent_exe) but has been explicitely removed in 1.7. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple