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Re: lstat() and implied .exe extension
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: lstat() and implied .exe extension
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:51:12 -0400
- References: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D997917170E@SILLDN_MAIL1>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 07:24:24PM +0100, Fifer, Eric wrote:
>lstat() does not imply a .exe:
>
> ls -l cat
> ls: cat: No such file or directory
>
>This isn't a big deal, but I was surprised by the change in behavior
>and thought I should ask whether the impact was anticipated.
It was not intentional. It was a bug in path_conv that could possibly
have affected other things.
Thanks for catching this. It should be fixed in the next snapshot.
cgf