X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:12:20 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog syscalls.cc Message-ID: <20091106141220.GC1311@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20091105144413 DOT 31963 DOT qmail AT sourceware DOT org> <4AF30801 DOT 7090508 AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> <20091105173450 DOT GQ26344 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20091105180847 DOT GA1918 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20091105181732 DOT GB1918 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20091105182225 DOT GT26344 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20091105183135 DOT GC1918 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20091106122925 DOT GE26344 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <2bf229d30911060551jeeb2f19we1b087c2f67a8632 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2bf229d30911060551jeeb2f19we1b087c2f67a8632@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:51:08AM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: >>> >Right. ?That's why I thought that any suffix given in the target file >>> >name should be sufficient to avoid appending the .exe suffix, but >>> >apparently it isn't. ?Probably we would need to check for any kind >>> >of Windows executable suffix like .exe, .sys, .com. ?I have to admit, >>> >though, that I never saw a .src suffix for a Windows binary... >>> >>> Well, in this case we could just look for alphabetic suffixes. ?But that's >>> probably too kludgy. >> >> Worth a try, at least. > >What about using the PATHEXT environment variable as a source for >possible extensions? It was already suggested. It has too much "stuff" in it. I don't like relying on a user-controlled environment variable for this type of thing anyway. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple