X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:11:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.4-2 Message-ID: <20100329161139.GP18364@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4BB0CBF4 DOT 1060901 AT redhat DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BB0CBF4.1060901@redhat.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 Mar 29 09:49, Eric Blake wrote: > On 03/29/2010 09:39 AM, george DOT b DOT milner AT L-3com DOT com wrote: > > $ cygcheck -c coreutils > > Cygwin Package Information > > Package Version Status > > coreutils 8.4-2 OK > > > > $ mkdir whatever.exe > > $ mv whatever.exe whatever > > $ echo $? > > 0 > > > > $ ls whatever > > ls: cannot open directory whatever: No such file or directory > > $ file whatever.exe > > whatever.exe: directory > > Thanks for the report. Unfortunately, directory names ending in .exe > are rarely tested, because they tend to interfere with .exe magic. I'll > add this to my list of things that I will look into for the next > coreutils packaging, but no promises on a time frame. In the meantime, > you are better off not naming your directories with a .exe extension in > the first place. It's a bug in Cygwin. I'm just looking into it. The problem is that automatic suffix handling is done, and this doesn't differ between files and directories. That's apparently wrong. I'm just testing a fix. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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