X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_YW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4C87A804.2080402@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:13:08 -0400 From: "Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: likely stupid question but name conflicts with foo and foo.exe? References: <20100908082531.GA5609@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 9/8/2010 7:32 AM, mike marchywka wrote: > On 9/8/10, Corinna Vinschen<> wrote: >> On Sep 7 09:00, mike marchywka wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm trying to copy of bunch of files from debian over to windoze using scp >>> -r. >>> This was working fine except for one error where it complains foo is >>> not a directory >>> and apparently I have foo and foo.exe in one dir but foo is a directory. >> >> This is by design. foo.exe is recognized as foo to allow to start apps >> without the dreaded suffix. Since Cygwin 1.7.0, foo and foo.exe are >> treated as identical. You can't have a dir "foo" and a file "foo" in >> the same directory, and that extends to "foo", "foo.exe", and "foo.lnk", >> the latter only if it's a Cygwin symlink of the shortcut type. > > Well, I think my original problem was foo.exe and a directory foo both in > same dir. I guess there could be issues with case too - foo and Foo. But, you > did make a conscious design decision to treat exe special? Yep. If foo != foo.exe then users have to type foo.exe to run foo, which is contrary to the conventions of Unix/Linux. Worse, all scripts that reference foo won't run because only foo.exe exists on Windows (for historical reasons). > This wouldn't be an absurd naming convention in real life however, app the > dir and app.exe that uses it. As long as they aren't in the same directory, then that's fine. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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