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Re: 1.7.7 ln & .exe magic


On 09/15/2010 11:03 AM, Rolf Campbell wrote:
--------test case-------
 From bash, in an empty directory:
$ ln /bin/ls t
$ ls
t.exe
------------------------
Why does the resulting hard link have a '.exe' suffix on it? I thought
that cygwin .exe magic was only appending when listing a file?

If the original file ends in .exe, then cp tries hard to make the target also end in .exe. The .exe magic for invoking 'ls' (instead of ls.exe) will therefore let you also invoke 't' (instead of t.exe), while still letting you run .\t from cmd (where the lack of a .exe suffix would break that attempt). So the .exe magic is more than just when listing a file.


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