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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:37:30 -0000
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Sam Steingold wrote:

> 
> not only cygwin "drops extension" from argv[0] (as your bug report
> says), 


  That's not a bug, it's a vital feature.  Consider all those Unix-y programs
that perform different functions according to the filename you invoke them
with.  Most of them just use "if (!strcmp (argv[0], "name"))" constructs that
would fail if the .exe extension was left on.  Clipping it off is probably the
best portability-vs-bugs tradeoff for cygwin.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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