According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:53 AM: > If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without > extensions.
True, but look at this: $ strings /bin/info.exe | grep -A12 gunzip gunzip .bz2 bunzip2 uncompress unyabba .info -info /index .inf /usr/local/info:/usr/info:... .exe %s%s < %s %s... Info intentionally appends the .exe suffix, concatenating both 'gunzip' and '.exe' along with the redirection, in creating the system() call, so that the subsidiary /bin/sh invocation sees 'gunzip.exe < filename.gz'. [and while testing this, I noticed that strace shows argv of the primary process, but not of the children processes; it would be nice to see argv for all processes in an strace] > I have to admit that my eyes glaze over when people start talking about > .exe extensions so I wasn't paying attention (my bad) when this decision > was made. I don't remember, however, this decision being put to a vote > for package maintainers because I definitely would have voted for each > maintainer fixing their package rather than having you do it for us. Fair enough. The list of affected packages is here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-04/msg00065.html And I will release coreutils-6.9-2 that does not do the postinstall renaming when bumping it to current, rather than promoting the existing 6.9-1. -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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