On Sep 15 15:38, Al wrote: > > > > True. In theory we would have to remove .exe and .lnk suffixes from > > directory listings as well, but that was never the case in Cygwin. > > > > > > That's the way it has always been... isn't a strong argument in development.
It wasn't an argument, it was just a description of the state. > I guess there are some other reasons to do it this way. If not one > should really consider to improve it to make Cygwin still more Unix > compatible. I'd love to drop the .exe suffix from readdir(), I'm just not sure what unwelcome side-effects we create. 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
