On Aug 7 10:11, Herbert Stocker wrote: > On 05.08.2016 17:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If you see the > > code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want* > > PATHEXT support anymore. > > > > Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin. > It tried to see if a directory /dir/subdir/something existed, > and Cygwin said yes because it found a /dir/subdir/something.exe . > So my program failed.
I have some doubt here. Cygwin always checks for "foo" first. Only if it doesn't find "foo", it checks for "foo.exe", then for "foo.lnk" and last, for backward compat, for "foo.exe.lnk". In the POSIX realm, "foo" == "foo.exe" == "foo.lnk". The search itself is indiscriminately, because Cygwin can't know if you're looking for "foo" or "foo.exe" or a symlink "foo" using the .lnk suffix. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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