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Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:27:51 -0600
From: Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
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According to Igor Pechtchanski on 7/11/2005 7:20 AM:
> 
> Yes, I believe Eric already posted that the bug is in the .exe magic
> interacting with virtual devices.  A workaround is to either use
> 
> cat /dev/null >"$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf              || exit_nicely

Works.

> 
> or (untested) actually create a stat'able /dev/null using the
> create_devices.sh script from
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html#using-specialnames>.

Won't work.  stat("/dev/null") gets intercepted by cygwin before checking
for an actual file named "null" in /dev/, so that the stat will succeed
(and with the same data) whether or not you have run create_devices.sh.
Perhaps creating /dev as a managed mount, though, and populating it with
"null.", would work for coreutils 5.3.0-7 (but I wouldn't bother with such
a convoluted workaround, especially since 5.3.0-8 will fix it).

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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