On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >> >> 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.
Were you testing for the existence of a *directory* ( /dir/subdir/something/. ) or for anything named *something* in /dir/subdir/ ? And what call were you using? It was my understanding that the foo == foo.exe == foo.lnk == foo.exe.lnk was only applied when attempting to execute something... (is my understanding wrong?) -- Erik -- 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
