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Re: Corner-case bug in .exe handling?
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:11:35 -0600
- Subject: Re: Corner-case bug in .exe handling?
- References: <5400e6ecebaa25efa46f0011be3fc58b58c4a69c.camel@cygwin.com>
- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2019-03-19 16:02, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Just came across this with 3.0.4 on both Win7 and Win10 1804:
>
> $ ls -1 /usr/bin/python2.7
> /usr/bin/python2.7
> $ ls -1 /usr/bin/python[2-9].[0-9]
> /usr/bin/python3.5
> /usr/bin/python3.6
> /usr/bin/python3.7
> /usr/bin/python3.8
>
> python2.7 is the actual .exe where python3.* are symlinks, but
> shouldn't 2.7 still be included in the latter?
Implicit .exe files have not been matched by coreutils or findutils for quite a
while:
$ find /bin/ -name '*sh'
/bin/config-run2-example.sh
/bin/csh
/bin/fontname.sh
/bin/fontprop.sh
/bin/gettext.sh
/bin/gvfs-trash
/bin/instmodsh
/bin/ksh
/bin/listings-ext.sh
/bin/lprsetup.sh
/bin/mkzsh
/bin/ptksh
/bin/repo2solv.sh
/bin/source-highlight-esc.sh
/bin/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh
/bin/tclsh
/bin/tcsh
/bin/texhash
/bin/unix-lpr.sh
$ ls -glo /bin/*sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4290 Jul 17 2013 /bin/config-run2-example.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 Nov 24 2016 /bin/csh -> tcsh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1351 Mar 28 2006 /bin/fontname.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 929 Mar 28 2006 /bin/fontprop.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4629 Oct 23 2016 /bin/gettext.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 277 Feb 19 2018 /bin/gvfs-trash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4287 Dec 1 00:28 /bin/instmodsh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 Mar 23 2018 /bin/ksh -> mksh.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 58 May 7 2018 /bin/listings-ext.sh ->
/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/listings-ext/listings-ext.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 5470 Mar 9 11:22 /bin/lprsetup.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1428 May 9 2018 /bin/mkzsh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 18572 Sep 27 2017 /bin/ptksh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 7859 Mar 23 2018 /bin/repo2solv.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 1017 Apr 11 2018 /bin/source-highlight-esc.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 490 Apr 11 2018 /bin/src-hilite-lesspipe.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 12 Dec 29 2017 /bin/tclsh -> tclsh8.6.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 Dec 7 2016 /bin/tcsh -> tcsh.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 May 7 2018 /bin/texhash -> mktexlsr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 4131 Mar 9 11:22 /bin/unix-lpr.sh
$ ls -glo /bin/*sh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 3 100883 Feb 17 2017 /bin/ash.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 739859 Jan 27 2017 /bin/bash.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 3 100883 Feb 17 2017 /bin/dash.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 265747 Feb 27 2018 /bin/mksh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 611490 Jun 11 2016 /bin/posh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 12280 Dec 7 2017 /bin/ppmflash.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 3 100883 Feb 17 2017 /bin/sh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 638483 Oct 19 04:43 /bin/ssh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 372755 Nov 24 2016 /bin/tcsh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 2 10259 Dec 24 2017 /bin/wish.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 10771 Jul 28 2013 /bin/xrefresh.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 2 10752 May 9 2018 /bin/zsh.exe
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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