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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks


On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Jon A. Lambert wrote:

> Eric Blake wrote:
> > Confirmed.  Unfortunately, this is a side effect of my improvements
> > to ln to unify the cygwin-specific .exe code which tries to determine
> > when the original file exists as just "file" vs. "file.exe".
>
> See line 560 of postgres initdb script.
>
> --------
> cp /dev/null "$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf               || exit_nicely
> -------
>
> The initdb script is failing with...
>
> cp: cannot stat `/dev/null.exe': No such file or directory
>
> It's there but cp cannot see it...
> .
> $ lal /dev/null
> crw-rw-rw-  1 postgres None 1, 3 Jul 11 08:42 /dev/null

Yes, I believe Eric already posted that the bug is in the .exe magic
interacting with virtual devices.  A workaround is to either use

cat /dev/null >"$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf              || exit_nicely

or (untested) actually create a stat'able /dev/null using the
create_devices.sh script from
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html#using-specialnames>.

HTH,
	Igor
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