> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: 18 July 2006 20:41 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: exe handling > > On Jul 18 18:10, Oliver Walsh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this has been already been discussed, the only reference I > > could find was a "In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than > > perl" thread. > > > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4729857 states > > the following: > > "If a shell script myprog and a program myprog.exe coexist in a > > directory, the program has precedence and is selected for execution of > > myprog." > > > > This was the case in my previous installation (cygwin 1.5.19-4) but the > > opposite seems to be the case in the latest cygwin dll (1.5.20-1). It's > > causing a lot of problem for me since for many commands I have an exe > > for windows and a shell wrapper for *nix. > > > > The change log for 1.5.20-1 mentions changes .exe handling. Is this > > intended behaviour? > > Yes. We just missed to change the docs, as usual. The behaviour has > been changed since it was inconsistent throughout Cygwin. Consider that > "foo" takes precedence over "foo.exe" in case of practically every other > system call, just when starting an application it didn't. So in the > worst (but usual case under <= 1.5.19) you would end up calling > stat("foo") and get the information for file "foo", but then you'd start > "foo.exe", which might not what you want. > > The general idea for the future is to avoid having a file "foo" and a > file "foo.exe" in the same directory like pestilence. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > 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/
Ok, I can't avoid having both files in the same location but I can just call foo.exe from foo when run from cygwin. Thanks, Ollie -- 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/