> * Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-18 20:37:30 +0000]: > > Sam Steingold wrote: > >> not only cygwin "drops extension" from argv[0] (as your bug report >> says), > > > That's not a bug, it's a vital feature. Consider all those Unix-y > programs that perform different functions according to the filename > you invoke them with. Most of them just use "if (!strcmp (argv[0], > "name"))" constructs that would fail if the .exe extension was left > on. Clipping it off is probably the best portability-vs-bugs tradeoff > for cygwin.
I see your point. still, realpath() should be putting it back in - or else _all_ functions (fopen, open, stat &c &c) must also do the exe magic. My point is that either realpath() fails or its return value can be opened (or at least opening it cannot fail with ENOENT). -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://www.honestreporting.com http://www.savegushkatif.org http://truepeace.org http://www.openvotingconsortium.org If I had known that it was harmless, I would have killed it myself. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
