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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 22:08:38 -0600
- Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks
- References: <1120881428.6584.8.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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According to fergus on 7/8/2005 9:57 PM:
> There must be something special about doing this with a drivename.
Yes - /cygdrive is virtual, so drivenames in that directory are managed
entirely by cygwin instead of by Windows. Windows-managed files (99% of
what you use) don't have any problems.
> Can any expert confirm whether I ought to look elsewhere for this
> strange appendix?
> I admit it's my fault for meddling but it's not that daft an activity to
> have pursued, and certainly
> ln -s /cygdrive/c /c
> must be a fairly common solution to an annoying problem (that of having
> to write a lot).
Actually, a more common solution is to use "mount" to move the cygdrive
prefix to a spelling other than its default (usually /, as mentioned in
the FAQ, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC53).
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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