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Re: 1.7.7 ln & .exe magic
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at freemail dot ru>
- To: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell-cygwin at dragonwaveinc dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:36:07 +0400
- Subject: Re: 1.7.7 ln & .exe magic
- References: <i6qu99$2uv$1@dough.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: Andrey Repin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Greetings, Rolf Campbell!
> --------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?
It's quite expected.
If source has .exe, the target will, too, for transparent compatibility.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.09.2010, <21:35>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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