On Jul 14 11:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:36:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jul 14 15:30, Eric Blake wrote: > >> Karl M <karlm30 <at> hotmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > I just noticed while looking around after updating dash that "ls > >> > /bin/*sh" > >> does not find bash and dash, but > >> > it does on my Fedora core 6 machine at work. I see the issue in both 1.5 > >> > and > >> 1.7, attached is an example in > >> > cygwin 1.7. > >> > >> [http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL] > >> > >> The issue is not ls, but glob() and fnmatch(), which do not have the same > >> .exe > >> magic as other functions. In short, fnmatch is merely comparing the > >> pattern > >> against the values returned by readdir(). Either we could teach readdir() > >> to > >> omit .exe (similar to how open() and stat() recognize 'ash' as a synonym > >> for 'ash.exe'), or teach the pattern matchers to to ignore the .exe > >> returned by > >> readdir() (but still allow searches like *.exe to work). I'm sure that > >> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC > > > >Hmm, both ideas sound nice. Probably not for Cygwin 1.7.1, but it's > >something we could explore in a later release. Both together might be > >especially helpful. > > I don't like the idea of having readdir lie about what's actually in the > directory that sounds like it will complicate things. > > Having Cygwin's glob function assume that ".exe" matches EOL seems like > it makes more sense. I realize that will mean modifying similar functions > in bash and elsewhere. > > Btw, some versions of cmd.exe don't work well with executables which lack > extensions. I just ran into this problem recently. I don't remember > exactly where, probably it was with NT 4.
cmd.exe never works well with executables lacking the suffix. It's not only on NT4. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
