Re: No such file or directory

[Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>]

I wasn't necessarily saying that it is the "wrong" solution, just that it needs
to be considered carefully. I wasn't aware that other POSIX layers (I assume
you are referring to UWIN or similar) have sucessfully implemented a similar
feature. I haven't thought it through, but on the surface, it does seem that it
could solve many compatability issues.

If you decide to implement it, should it be selectable via, for example, a
CYGWIN environment variable setting?

Rick
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 08:13:08PM -0800, Rick Rankin wrote:
> >I don't know.  I think you'd want to consider it very carefully.  I'd
> >be pretty annoyed if I typed 'cat foo', thinking foo contained a few
> >lines of text, and cat instead opened foo.exe because I was in the
> >wrong directory or something like that.
> >
> >It seems like most of the problems you refered to are related to make
> >and/or install.  Wouldn't it be better to "fix" these programs than to
> >build something like this into the core?
> 
> The problem is already "fixed" in install but that doesn't "fix" the
> problem for packages that don't use "install".
> 
> So, the only other alternative is to modify, cp and mv.  I guess we
> could also change every open in make but I don't think that's the
> right solution.
> 
> Other POSIX-over-Windows packages seem to default to finding a ".exe".
> I don't think this would be too burdensome, myself.
> 
> cgf
> 
> >--- Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> >> I wonder if it would really be a big deal if cygwin, by default, found a
> >> file "foo.exe" if there was no existing file "foo".
> >> 
> >> We keep running into this problem and I wonder if implementing this in
> >> cygwin would solve more problems than it causes.
> 
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