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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:09:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
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On Jul 9 11:39, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Jul 9 07:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > Hmm, while I'm at it, "dirname //" should return //, not /.
> >
> > No. // is a perfectly valid root dir in a system which differs between
> > / and //. Let dirname(1) just use what it gets from dirname(3).
>
> Looks to me like you're in violent agreement here...
Hmmmm... time to clean the display again? Sigh, every five years the
same fuss...
Corinna