X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:17:34 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog syscalls.cc Message-ID: <20091105181734.GS26344@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20091105144413.31963.qmail@sourceware.org> <4AF30801.7090508@users.sourceforge.net> <20091105173450.GQ26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091105180847.GA1918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091105180847.GA1918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Nov 5 13:08, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Let's see: > > > > rename ("foo.exe", "perl5.10.0.exe") result: perl5.10.0.exe > > rename ("foo.exe", "perl5.10.0") result: perl5.10.0 > > rename ("foo", "perl5.10.0.exe") result: perl5.10.0.exe > > rename ("foo", "perl5.10.0") result: perl5.10.0 > > > >The latter one is a problem, because that's what happens when calling > > > > strip perl5.10.0 > > > >so after strip the binary is missing a .exe suffix. > > > >Sigh. > > > >Is there any *reliable* solution to this problem, other than never to > >add a .exe suffix? > > Isn't the reliable-but-slow method to check the magic at the beginning > of the file to see if it actually is a .exe? I'm not sure we want to do > that though. That's what already is done by calling GetBinaryTypeW on the source file. The problem is that the desired target name could actually be "foo.sys" or "flub.com", as outlined in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00106.html 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