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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:48:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:36:45PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:50:23PM -0500, Matthew Smith wrote:
> >> >Right. How gnarly are the cygwin patches for the current sh-utils and
> >> >file-utils? If they're nothing major, I'll step up to bat for maintaining
> >> >coreutils.
> >>
> >> I made an attempt to get "cp foo /bin" working "correctly" so that foo.exe
> >> would be copied if there was no existing foo but I never got it quite right.
> >> I don't think my changes should be reincorporated although it would be nice
> >> to get this working.
> >>
> >> sh-utils should be patched so that test.exe uses the cygwin version of
> >> access() rather than the sh-utils version.
> >>
> >> Other than that, I think it should be standard.
> >> cgf
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >Regarding the .exe appending issue, do you think it would make sense to
> >add a "stat_pure()" function to Cygwin (as suggested in
> ><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg02180.html>)?
> >That would make easier implementing things like:
> >
> >   struct stat buf;
> >   char name[8]="foo";
> >   if (stat_pure(name, &buf)) {
> >     strcat(name,".exe");
> >     if (errno == ENOENT && !stat_pure(name, &buf)) {
> >       ...
> >     }
> >   }
> >
> >which would be useful for both cp and, say, unzip...
>
> I don't see what this had to do with the cp issue.  I wasn't saying that
> cp was hampered by stat's behavior.  My changes to cp were trying to
> ensure that files with a .exe extension were copied appropriately even
> when a .exe extension was not specified.
>
> However to answer your question, no, I don't think adding non-POSIX
> functions to cygwin is the way to go.  If you want to add
> cygwin-specific code, then just check for "foo." rather than "foo".
> cgf

Ah.  I feel properly shamed.  I even think we've been through this
before...
	Igor
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