On Apr 16 16:42, Luke Kendall wrote:
> Suppose that when it does a stat() on "fred", before it decides that
> it's found the right file to exec, it should check that "fred" isn't a

A stat() call can't know for what purpose it has been called.  Calling
stat on "foo", it will return the information for "foo" first, if it
exists.  Only if it not exists it tries "foo.exe" or "foo.lnk".


Corinna

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