X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:27:12 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog syscalls.cc Message-ID: <20091106142712.GM26344@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> <20091105181732.GB1918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20091105182225.GT26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091105183135.GC1918@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20091106122925.GE26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <2bf229d30911060551jeeb2f19we1b087c2f67a8632@mail.gmail.com> <20091106141220.GC1311@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091106141220.GC1311@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 6 09:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:51:08AM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >>> >Right. ?That's why I thought that any suffix given in the target file > >>> >name should be sufficient to avoid appending the .exe suffix, but > >>> >apparently it isn't. ?Probably we would need to check for any kind > >>> >of Windows executable suffix like .exe, .sys, .com. ?I have to admit, > >>> >though, that I never saw a .src suffix for a Windows binary... > >>> > >>> Well, in this case we could just look for alphabetic suffixes. ?But that's > >>> probably too kludgy. > >> > >> Worth a try, at least. > > > >What about using the PATHEXT environment variable as a source for > >possible extensions? > > It was already suggested. It has too much "stuff" in it. > > I don't like relying on a user-controlled environment variable for this > type of thing anyway. ACK. 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