RE: cp breaking weirdly when trying to copy an executable without specifying the .exe extension

["Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>]

> From: Max Bowsher
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:38 PM

> $ touch foo.exe
> $ cp foo bar
> cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
>
> The above error message is rather confusing.
>
> Is Cygwin's cp supposed to transparently permit the omission of
> the .exe extension, or am I misremembering?

 cp  and  mv  comes out of the same box (same source file) and both seems to
have problems with this. I had a look some time ago but came to no
conclusion, primarily due to limited time to begin with.

 This has been on the list several times before, AFAIK (from reading here)
no-one has made efforts to do anything about it.
IIRC/Long shot/Long time no see: Seems to be some kind of interaction with
(was it?)stat() beeing "hacked" to check for <file>.exe also, as <file> is
scanned for. (mv using rename for moving?)

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E

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