Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <03e001c22427$ce581a00$6132bc3e@BABEL> From: "Conrad Scott" To: Subject: stat vs open w/ ".exe" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:28:09 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 I think this has been discussed before but I've searched the mailing lists to no avail, so here goes. If you *stat* a file with no suffix, e.g. /bin/bash, it will succeed if there is a file /bin/bash.exe. If you *open* a file with no suffix, it doesn't succeed in that case. (So "ls /bin/bash" succeeds and "strings /bin/bash" fails.) In other words, stat(2) also checks for the file with a .exe extension, while open(2) doesn't. The difference comes down to the call to cygheap->fdtab.build_fhandler_from_name() in syscalls.cc:_open() vs that in syscalls.cc:stat_worker(). Is this a bug or a deliberate decision? and if the latter, why so? // Conrad