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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks


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According to Igor Pechtchanski on 7/11/2005 7:20 AM:
> 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

P.S. - to avoid spawning an unnecessary process (cp in the original, or
cat in this example), use the following:

: >"$PGDATA"/postgresql.conf || exit_nicely

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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