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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:07:14 -0400
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The stat "system call" in cygwin searches for the file named in the input
parameters. If it doesn't find it, it appends ".exe" to the name and
searches for that
file. If it find the "abc.exe" version of "abc". it silently returns
information about
a filename ("abc.exe") which was not specified in the input parameters.

Can anyone explain this behavior? Why, then, doesn't it also search for
".bat", ".cmd", and everything
else in the PATHEXT environment variable?

Ed Bradford

Your Windows 2000 Arborist
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egb AT us DOT ibm DOT com



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