Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-07-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 07:54 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Most likely, the hole is in coreutils' exe magic. Looks like I'll be > working on a coreutils-8.5-3 today... Since apparently that hasn't happened yet, let me add that the same thing is not limited to files, but happens with a directory as we

Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-06-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/29/2010 02:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> It's definitely a bug (or two) somewhere: >> >> * "install foo" correctly installs 'foo' but the presence of foo.exe >> apparently fools something to add the .exe. >> >> * the .exe is being added when the file is clearly not a PE executable, >> nor

Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-06-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 28 21:54, Yaakov S wrote: > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 17:16 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > The problem is here - should install be open()ing "foo" (the script) or > > "foo.exe" (the executable) as the source file for copying into bar/foo? > > Since it is never a good idea to have both an .exe and

Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-06-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 17:16 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > The problem is here - should install be open()ing "foo" (the script) or > "foo.exe" (the executable) as the source file for copying into bar/foo? > Since it is never a good idea to have both an .exe and a script of the > same name in the same

Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-06-28 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 29/06/2010 01:16, Eric Blake a écrit : On 06/28/2010 05:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: It is not unusual for mono packages to create a wrapper script (to be installed in PATH) in the same directory as an assembly (which has .exe suffix and is installed out of PATH), which uncovered a regres

Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-06-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:16:05PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 06/28/2010 05:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: >> It is not unusual for mono packages to create a wrapper script (to be >> installed in PATH) in the same directory as an assembly (which has .exe >> suffix and is installed out of PATH),

Re: Regression in .exe extension handling

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/28/2010 05:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > It is not unusual for mono packages to create a wrapper script (to be > installed in PATH) in the same directory as an assembly (which has .exe > suffix and is installed out of PATH), which uncovered a regression using > the 20100622 snapshot: > >