On Aug 8, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Erik Soderquist <eriksoderqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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/ ?
[snip] > $ touch /tmp/foo.exe > > $ if [ -e /tmp/foo ] ; then echo yes ; else echo no ; fi > yes Yes, but: $ if [ -d /tmp/foo ] ; then echo yes ; else echo no ; fi no The existence check is because foo == foo.exe == foo.lnk under Cygwin, but the original complaint came from someone checking for a directory. So, the lesson is, fix the stat(2)/test(1) call, don’t change Cygwin to cope with a bad test. -- 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
