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Subject: RE: exe handling
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:41:00 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On
Behalf
> Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: 18 July 2006 20:41
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: exe handling
> 
> On Jul 18 18:10, Oliver Walsh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry if this has been already been discussed, the only reference I
> > could find was a "In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than
> > perl" thread.
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4729857
states
> > the following:
> > "If a shell script myprog and a program myprog.exe coexist in a
> > directory, the program has precedence and is selected for execution
of
> > myprog."
> >
> > This was the case in my previous installation (cygwin 1.5.19-4) but
the
> > opposite seems to be the case in the latest cygwin dll (1.5.20-1).
It's
> > causing a lot of problem for me since for many commands I have an
exe
> > for windows and a shell wrapper for *nix.
> >
> > The change log for 1.5.20-1 mentions changes .exe handling. Is this
> > intended behaviour?
> 
> Yes.  We just missed to change the docs, as usual.  The behaviour has
> been changed since it was inconsistent throughout Cygwin.  Consider
that
> "foo" takes precedence over "foo.exe" in case of practically every
other
> system call, just when starting an application it didn't.  So in the
> worst (but usual case under <= 1.5.19) you would end up calling
> stat("foo") and get the information for file "foo", but then you'd
start
> "foo.exe", which might not what you want.
> 
> The general idea for the future is to avoid having a file "foo" and a
> file "foo.exe" in the same directory like pestilence.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
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Ok, I can't avoid having both files in the same location but I can just
call foo.exe from foo when run from cygwin.

Thanks,
Ollie


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