On Aug 8 09:52, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > Were you testing for the existence of a *directory* ( > /dir/subdir/something/. ) or for anything named *something* in > /dir/subdir/ ? > > And what call were you using? It was my understanding that the foo == > foo.exe == foo.lnk == foo.exe.lnk was only applied when attempting to > execute something... (is my understanding wrong?)
Yes. It's also applied when stat'ing si or access'ing something. The
same rules apply. Consider:
if (access ("foo", X_OK) == 0)
execve ("foo", ...);
else
error ("foo not executable");
Consider that every call of the application has some reason Cygwin
just can NOT double guess. If you skip the .exe/.lnk tests, you're\
basically doomed in one scenario or the other.
Been there, done that, no joy.
Corinna
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