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
