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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc AT alltel DOT net>
To: "Eric Blake" <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>, <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:43:06 -0400
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Confirmed.  Unfortunately, this is a side effect of my improvements
> to ln to unify the cygwin-specific .exe code which tries to determine
> when the original file exists as just "file" vs. "file.exe".  

See line 560 of postgres initdb script.

--------
cp /dev/null "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf               || exit_nicely
-------

The initdb script is failing with...

cp: cannot stat `/dev/null.exe': No such file or directory

It's there but cp cannot see it...
.
$ lal /dev/null
crw-rw-rw-  1 postgres None 1, 3 Jul 11 08:42 /dev/null

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J Lambert




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