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Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN
On 05.08.2016 17:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
If you see the
code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want*
PATHEXT support anymore.
Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin.
It tried to see if a directory /dir/subdir/something existed,
and Cygwin said yes because it found a /dir/subdir/something.exe .
So my program failed.
Herbert
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