From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1258 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2005 16:28:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 1227 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jul 2005 16:28:54 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:28:54 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j69GSruA018967 for ; Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:28:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 16:28:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks In-Reply-To: <20050709160915.GS7507@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <1120880636.6400.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42CFD190.2060109@byu.net> <20050709153641.GR7507@calimero.vinschen.de> <20050709160915.GS7507@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q3/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 9 11:39, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Jul 9 07:30, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > Hmm, while I'm at it, "dirname //" should return //, not /. > > > > > > No. // is a perfectly valid root dir in a system which differs between > > > / and //. Let dirname(1) just use what it gets from dirname(3). > > > > Looks to me like you're in violent agreement here... > > Hmmmm... time to clean the display again? Sigh, every five years the > same fuss... Yep. Use . Regularly. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA