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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>,
	'Aaron Schneider'	<notstop@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: RE: Inconsistence on file operation when the name already exists with exe extension
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:43:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A8BBE8B2F@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU152-W26F54627DEBFF08480143BCEEC0@phx.gbl>

Aaron Schneider wrote: on July 08, 2012 at 4:19 PM
> Is this behavior intended? This is not unix like, the filename should be preserved as is.

This may help explain this behavior:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-exe


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-08 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-08 20:03 Aaron Schneider
2012-07-08 20:19 ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-08 20:27   ` marco atzeri
2012-07-08 20:37     ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-09 12:36       ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-08 20:49     ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-08 22:43   ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] [this message]
2012-07-08 23:20   ` Andrey Repin
2012-07-09 15:23 notstop
2012-07-09 15:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-09 16:47   ` Steven Hartland
2012-07-09 17:20   ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-10  5:38     ` Matt Seitz
2012-07-10  8:45       ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-10 15:25         ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-10 16:23           ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-07-10 16:54           ` Aaron Schneider
2012-07-10 17:03             ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-10 18:59             ` Earnie Boyd
2012-07-11  0:50             ` Andrey Repin

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