Re: unzip, find broken by auto handling of .exe file extension

[Stephen Anderson <stephen.rhoderson@gmail.com>]

> On Sep 12, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 12/09/2016 21:12, Stephen Anderson wrote:
>> Thanks Ken, good observation.
>> 
>>   -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Nellis, Kenneth
>>> From: Stephen Anderson >
>>> > See also:
>>> >
>>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32467871/unzip-gives-checkdir-error-
>>> > directory-exists-but-is-not-a-directory#32468314
>>> >
>>> > The fact that 7z handles this and unzip does not indicates that the
>>> > problem is fixable..
>> 
>>> FWIW, it seems that the same issue is present with tar:
>>> <Ken demonstrates broken tar handling>
>> 
>> This means that you can't reliably extract from a tar or zip archive in
>> cygwin.
>> The windoze equivalents do not have this problem.
>> It looks to me like the approach of equating filenames 'foo' and
>> 'foo.exe' is dangerous at the stat(2) level - apparently windoze
>> accomplishes the same trick in a much less destructive way.
>> 
>> sja
>> 
> 
> This characteristics is needed as windows for historical reason
> requested  ".exe" extension for all executable files, while
> Unix have not such restriction.
> 
> So "cat.exe" is recognized by cygwin also as "cat".
> Without this feature all scripts taken by traditional Unix's will
> be broken and cygwin will be unusable.
> 
> Try this experiment on Linux:
> 
> touch foo
> mkdir foo
> 
> does it work ?

This is not relevant, there is no foo, there is only foo.exe.

In the case of windows _command_ processing, certain extensions are searched for automatically without creating an equivalency in file names. This means that for the same directory and filename hierarchy, windows and linux archive processing work, cygwin uniquely fails. Not a desirable outcome.

IMHO the only time cygwin should be looking for .exe (or .cmd, .bat etc if desired), is when no match is found on loading a _command_, possibly only from a shell.

sja
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