On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > 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?)
I'm wrong, the following test case demontrates that clearly. $ rm -f /tmp/foo* $ if [ -e /tmp/foo ] ; then echo yes ; else echo no ; fi no $ touch /tmp/foo.exe $ if [ -e /tmp/foo ] ; then echo yes ; else echo no ; fi yes $ -- 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
