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According to Christopher Faylor on 7/8/2005 11:02 PM:
> I don't get it. Certainly /cygdrive/c.exe doesn't exist so why would you
> try to link to it?
The algorithm I used was this:
1 - If source exists [determined by the return value of readlink
("source"), although just now I realized that for symbolic links, it
should really be the return value of readlink (concat (dirname ("dest"),
"source")) since symbolic links are relative to the destination, not the pwd]
2a - if source is non-symlink and exists with a trailing . [determined by
access ("source.")] use "source", else use "source.exe", because one of
those two spellings must have made test 1 succeed
2b - if source is symlink and exists with a trailing .lnk [determined by
readlink ("source.lnk")] use "source", else use "source.exe", because one
of those two spellings must have made test 1 succeed
I think the cleanup needs to be along these lines - in steps 2a and 2b, do
a sanity check of also checking whether "source.exe" exists. If neither
"source." nor "source.exe" exist, we must be on a virtual/managed drive
where the trailing . trick doesn't work, so fall back to "source".
"source.exe" should only be chosen when we can prove that "source" doesn't
exist but "source.exe" does.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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