On Mar 2 09:16, David Rothenberger wrote: > On 3/2/2010 3:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The .exe suffix is added if all of the below is true: > > > >- The file is renamed via the rename(2) function. > >- The name does not only change by case on a caseinsensitive mount. > >- The file is a binary checked with the Win32 function GetBinaryType, > > and the returned type is SCS_32BIT_BINARY or SCS_64BIT_BINARY. > >- The source filename has none of the following suffixes: > > .com > > .dll > > .exe > > .scr > > .sys > >- The destination filename has none of the aforementioned suffixes. > > All these conditions are true in the svn test case. svn is renaming > tst/tempfile.tmp to tst/notepad.xxx using libapr1, which is using > rename(2). > > It does seem that the ACLs on the directory and file play a role, > too. I've attached a reproduction script along with a simple > rename(2) driver program. The script explicitly removes the default > group ACLs from a directory before doing a rename(2) in that > directory. In that case, no .exe suffix is added. If you modify the > top of the script to set "SETACLS=set", it will add default group > ACLs of rwx and the .exe suffix is added. > > I'm not sure if this points to a bug in Cygwin or not. It does > explain why Alan and I were seeing different behavior.
The rename(2) function does not check at all for the ACL. The weird outcome must have something to do with the way the GetBinaryType function works. I don't understand what the default permissions of the parent dir have to do with that, though. 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
