X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_YW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100908082531.GA5609@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20100908082531 DOT GA5609 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 06:32:19 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: likely stupid question but name conflicts with foo and foo.exe? From: mike marchywka To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 9/8/10, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote: > On Sep 7 09:00, mike marchywka wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to copy of bunch of files from debian over to windoze using scp >> -r. >> This was working fine except for one error where it complains foo is >> not a directory >> and apparently I have foo and foo.exe in one dir but foo is a directory. > > This is by design. foo.exe is recognized as foo to allow to start apps > without the dreaded suffix. Since Cygwin 1.7.0, foo and foo.exe are > treated as identical. You can't have a dir "foo" and a file "foo" in > the same directory, and that extends to "foo", "foo.exe", and "foo.lnk", > the latter only if it's a Cygwin symlink of the shortcut type. Well, I think my original problem was foo.exe and a directory foo both in same dir. I guess there could be issues with case too - foo and Foo. But, you did make a conscious design decision to treat exe special? This wouldn't be an absurd naming convention in real life however, app the dir and app.exe that uses it. > > > Corinna > -- 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