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> * Dave Korn <qnir DOT xbea AT negvzv DOT pbz> [2006-01-18 20:37:30 +0000]:
>
> 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.

I see your point.
still, realpath() should be putting it back in - or else _all_ functions
(fopen, open, stat &c &c) must also do the exe magic.

My point is that either realpath() fails or its return value can be
opened (or at least opening it cannot fail with ENOENT).

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