Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic

[Herbert Stocker <hersto@gmx.de>]

On 26.08.2016 15:19, Lee Dilkie wrote:
>
>
> On 8/26/2016 9:08 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> Dear Cygwin Community,
>>
>> $ ls -l
>> total 60
>> -rwxr-x--- 1 knellis Domain Users 60927 Aug 26 08:57 hello.exe
>> $ ./hello
>> Hello, world!
>> $ cygpath -w hello
>> hello
>> $
>>
>> The purpose of cygpath -w, it seems to me, is to provide
>> to Windows a valid path given a Posix path.
>>
>> Given executable file foo.exe, which Cygwin allows to be
>> referenced simply as foo, should not: cygpath -w foo
>> return: foo.exe
>> instead of: foo
>> ?
>>
>> Passing foo to a Windows application will certainly
>> be a problem. I recognize this might be considered a
>> change of scope for the program, but I think the tool
>> should do the .exe magic rather than pass off this
>> responsibility to the user. Food for thought.
>
> and break everyone who has existing code to take care of this?

If it is done, it should be done as an additional option, i'd say.

Herbert


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