On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:03:41PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to fergus on 7/8/2005 9:43 PM: >> ln -s /cygdrive/c /c >> ln -s /cygdrive/f /f >> Following the recent upgrade to cygutils I find that the symlink is >> created as /c.exe not /c and /f.exe not /f in cases where the drive >> exists. > >Confirmed. Unfortunately, this is a side effect of my improvements to ln >to unify the cygwin-specific .exe code which tries to determine when the >original file exists as just "file" vs. "file.exe". Inside normal >directories, the test is simple - check if "file." exists (since Windows >flattens the trailing .). But for virtual filenames (such as /cygdrive, >/proc/registry, //server, or managed drives), the trailing . trick doesn't >work. I really NEED a way to tell whether a file exists with exact >spelling, or had .exe appended, and you've found a place where the >trailing . trick is not cutting it. Since ln, mv, and cp share my >cygwin-specific code now, I imagine it is probably easy to find a similar >bug in cp or mv.
I don't get it. Certainly /cygdrive/c.exe doesn't exist so why would you try to link to it? cgf -- 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/
