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Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN


On 8/8/2016 10:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug  8 09:43, cyg Simple wrote:
>> On 8/8/2016 7:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Aug  7 10:11, Herbert Stocker wrote:
>>>> On 05.08.2016 17:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>  If you see the
>>>>> code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want*
>>>>> PATHEXT support anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin.
>>>> It tried to see if a directory  /dir/subdir/something  existed,
>>>> and Cygwin said yes because it found a /dir/subdir/something.exe .
>>>> So my program failed.
>>>
>>> I have some doubt here.  Cygwin always checks for "foo" first.
>>> Only if it doesn't find "foo", it checks for "foo.exe", then
>>> for "foo.lnk" and last, for backward compat, for "foo.exe.lnk".
>>>
>>
>> Which is the exact cause of the issue.
>>
>>> In the POSIX realm, "foo" == "foo.exe" == "foo.lnk".  The search itself
>>> is indiscriminately, because Cygwin can't know if you're looking for
>>> "foo" or "foo.exe" or a symlink "foo" using the .lnk suffix.
>>
>> Why do you say "In the POSIX realm"?  Only Cygwin does this association.
>>  I understand why it does so but is there a different way to achieve the
>> same thing with greater accuracy?
> 
> No, sorry, but no.  Every time you start to double guess what the
> application is looking for in a certain scenario, you lose.  See
> the example I just made up in 
> 
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg00124.html
> 
> And it's just *one* very simple example.
> 

Agree that looks horrific.

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