Re: the .exe extension

[Spiro Trikaliotis <an-cygwin at spiro dot trikaliotis dot net>]

Hello Eric,

* On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:42AM -0700 Eric Blake wrote:
 
> In general, cygwin does not care if the .exe is missing, but other
> programs (particularly cmd) do, so it is better if PE-COFF files are
> given the .exe extension.

Is it really better to add the .exe extension? May I ask which problem
it is this renaming tries to solve?

I ask because here have been some discussions about the problems imposed
by renaming to .exe. However, I could not come up with a problem that
can be solved with this renaming: If I really, really need the .exe
extension, I can generate it myself. So, why should Cygwin do it
automatically?

Thank you (or anyone else) for any explanations,
Spiro.

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