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: <044f01c22449$21047cf0$6132bc3e@BABEL> From: "Conrad Scott" To: References: <03e001c22427$ce581a00$6132bc3e AT BABEL> <20020705170333 DOT GD30783 AT redhat DOT com> Subject: Re: stat vs open w/ ".exe" Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:26:42 +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 "Christopher Faylor" wrote: > It was a deliberate design decision. > It *has* been discussed many > times both in this group and in cygwin AT cygwin. I am not up to > trying to recreate the argument (it wasn't mine) today. Maybe > someone else will. Okay: I'll go back to the archives and see if I can dig something up ("stat", "open", and ".exe" are not easy patterns to search for tho'). It currently strikes me as strange (but then again, it just bit me so I'm feeling delicate) but I'll go find some discussion of its merits. Thanks, // Conrad