.exe magic reloaded 2

Al oss.elmar@googlemail.com
Wed Sep 15 14:41:00 GMT 2010


> I'd love to drop the .exe suffix from readdir(), I'm just not sure what
> unwelcome side-effects we create.
>

Yes, that's always the point. All programs would break, that are only
build against the .exe suffix. Like mine after patching it. :-)

Don't know if Cygwin has a testing state to fix those side-effects
before everything goes public.

The listing with .exe extensions also has an informative value for the
human reader of the list, that would be lost.

Al

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