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Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic


On 8/26/2016 10:35 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> From: Herbert Stocker
>> On 26.08.2016 15:19, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>>> and break everyone who has existing code to take care of this?
>>
>> If it is done, it should be done as an additional option, i'd say.
> 
> Of course a new option, duh! ☺
> But my feeble brain is failing to imagine a case where this
> would break anything, unless the user solution would turn
> a returned foo.exe into foo.exe.exe, which seems doubtful.
> 

We still don't have a valid case of failure without the .exe.  Until
that happens this is a no-go change.

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