On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Robert R Schneck-McConnell wrote:
> [snip]
> Hey, it might be interesting for managed mounts *really* to identify the
> filenames "foo" and "foo.exe". (Maybe they already do?)
>
> Robert
Huh? What do you mean by "identify" here? If you mean "equate", this
most likely won't happen. If you mean "differentiate", then that's
already happening even on non-managed mounts (hence the need for special
cp and install hacks). If you simply mean that *cp* (and install) should
not assume foo=foo.exe on managed mounts, then PTC. :-)
FWIW, WinNT/2k/XP allow executables to not have a .exe extension.
This does, however, bring me to an interesting observation about managed
mode mounts that I just thought of: since capital letters are encoded on
managed mounts, the underlying filesystem won't see "a.Exe" as an
executable file (nor, for that matter, "A.EXE"). Or, rather, it'll
probably be possible to execute it (especially on WinNT/2k/XP systems),
but using "./a.Exe", not "./a". I know, I know, PTC, but I just wanted to
get this into the archives.
Igor
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