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Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:26:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution
- References: <D80722838B6A6B4BA3CA9D90BA70BBB302E0DFAF@dhrseasvxb04.messaging.danaherad.com> <20080416064211.40A7F84237@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 16 16:42, Luke Kendall wrote:
> Suppose that when it does a stat() on "fred", before it decides that
> it's found the right file to exec, it should check that "fred" isn't a
A stat() call can't know for what purpose it has been called. Calling
stat on "foo", it will return the information for "foo" first, if it
exists. Only if it not exists it tries "foo.exe" or "foo.lnk".
Corinna
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