From: Lee Dilkie <lee.dilkie@mitel.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c9135e59-684e-f749-9fd7-c14b64bae105@mitel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BB92639@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net>
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?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-26 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-26 13:59 Nellis, Kenneth
2016-08-26 14:30 ` Lee Dilkie [this message]
2016-08-26 14:30 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-08-26 14:58 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-08-26 15:07 ` cyg Simple
2016-08-26 15:34 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-08-26 17:55 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-08-26 19:50 ` cyg Simple
2016-08-26 14:45 ` cyg Simple
2016-08-26 15:29 ` Doug Henderson
2016-08-26 16:50 ` Herbert Stocker
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