X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C90FCF6.6000505@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:05:58 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.1.3-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.7 ln & .exe magic References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 09/15/2010 11:03 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote: > --------test case------- > From bash, in an empty directory: > $ ln /bin/ls t > $ ls > t.exe > ------------------------ > Why does the resulting hard link have a '.exe' suffix on it? I thought > that cygwin .exe magic was only appending when listing a file? If the original file ends in .exe, then cp tries hard to make the target also end in .exe. The .exe magic for invoking 'ls' (instead of ls.exe) will therefore let you also invoke 't' (instead of t.exe), while still letting you run .\t from cmd (where the lack of a .exe suffix would break that attempt). So the .exe magic is more than just when listing a file. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- 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