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stat vs open w/ ".exe"
- From: "Conrad Scott" <Conrad dot Scott at dsl dot pipex dot com>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:28:09 +0100
- Subject: stat vs open w/ ".exe"
I think this has been discussed before but I've searched the
mailing lists to no avail, so here goes.
If you *stat* a file with no suffix, e.g. /bin/bash, it will
succeed if there is a file /bin/bash.exe.
If you *open* a file with no suffix, it doesn't succeed in that
case.
(So "ls /bin/bash" succeeds and "strings /bin/bash" fails.)
In other words, stat(2) also checks for the file with a .exe
extension, while open(2) doesn't. The difference comes down to
the call to cygheap->fdtab.build_fhandler_from_name() in
syscalls.cc:_open() vs that in syscalls.cc:stat_worker().
Is this a bug or a deliberate decision? and if the latter, why so?
// Conrad