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Re: Problem in executable file mechanism


On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:56:32AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Try "strace sh -c ls".
> 	Igor

Well... let's get serious.  What do you expect?  Think UNIX.  The
executable is 'ls'.  The directory is 'ls'.  This is only possible
on Windows because the executables have this .exe suffix.  On UNIX
this won't be a problem since there wouldn't be two files with the
same name in a directory.

Corinna

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