Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:44:33 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: tcsh doesn't find commands that end with .exe Message-ID: <20050615074433.GV3522@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <42ADA78B DOT 9040300 AT scytek DOT de> <20050613160117 DOT GC3522 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <42ADAFC9 DOT 9090401 AT scytek DOT de> <20050613163537 DOT GA11778 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <42AE20F2 DOT 4000409 AT scytek DOT de> <20050614180215 DOT GU3522 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <42AF3C72 DOT 2060009 AT scytek DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42AF3C72.2060009@scytek.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 14 16:22, Volker Quetschke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>(...) > >>And all lower case, (cygwin only). Try something like this: > > > >Well, it seemed like a good idea way back when. But I agree that it's > >probably not quite contemporary anymore. > > > >Try the below patch. It removes the 'all lowercase' and it allows to enter > >all tools with exe suffix. If that's basically what you had in mind, I'll > >send the patch upstream and create a new Cygwin tcsh release. > > Thanks for patching this! I was mainly concerned about the > unpredictability when starting different programs ending in .exe. > I didn't know that it was (before your patch) by design. But i like > the new design better ;) > > I found another variation of my testcase showing that the failure > in the path hashing also happens in directories with less files > and that it doesn't "disable" the hashing for those directories > completely. > > Unpatched standard cygwin tcsh: > [quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which gcc.exe > /usr/bin/gcc.exe > [quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which whoami.exe > whoami.exe: Command not found. > [quetschke AT Macros ~]$ which whoami > /usr/bin/whoami Doesn't happen with the patched tcsh. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/