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According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/4/2009 2:19 PM:
> The Cygwin symlink(2) call does not add the .exe suffix, neither in
> Cygwin 1.5, nor in Cygwin 1.7.  It looks like a feature of the ln(1)
> tool from the Cygwin 1.5 coreutils, AFAICS.

Yes, the 1.5 ln(1) had some .exe magic, because cygwin1.dll 1.5 did not
always handle symlinks gracefully if the .exe was not present.

>  ln(1) from the Cygwin 1.7
> coreutils does also not add a .exe suffix.

Probably because cygwin 1.7 handles .exe better.  I disabled some of the
.exe magic when porting coreutils to 1.7 (perhaps too much, though, based
on reports of cp not doing enough .exe magic).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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