You must be right in some points, but that is not the exact behavior of
windows command although you pretend it to be (the powershell has a
different behavior). In fact, I can independently operate file while
file.exe exists:
copy file.exe file
Now there are file and file.exe
-- windows cmd.exe behaves like that:
del file: removes file only regardless of file.exe existence
del file.exe: removes file.exe only regardless of file existence
-- Cygwin behaves differently:
rm file.exe: will remove only file.exe if exists
rm file: will remove file if exists, and if not will remove file.exe
Considering this, may be be an issue when untaring a tarfile whose
contents will match an already existing file in the directory with the
exe extension. If both thefile and thefile.exe are packed in the tar,
won't be an issue since thefile is alphabetically precedent to
thefile.exe so both will be untared, but is just a mere coincidence that
it works. Would be an issue if where the opposite.
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