-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eli Zaretskii on 1/22/2005 9:23 AM: >>2) On Cygwin, both `test -x foo' and `test -f foo' look for foo.exe. > > That's a bug, IMHO. It's actually a design decision, and seems correct to me. As -x applies to more than just executables (for example, directories), you really DO want to find a file that is both -f (regular file) and -x (executable), so both checks need to look for the .exe extension not required in normal Unix. Cygwin intercepts all POSIX system calls through cygwin1.dll, which all cygwin programs link against, and for every call that operates on any file name, such as open(), cygwin checks for the first existing file among "foo", "foo.exe", "foo.exe.lnk", and "foo.lnk". The .lnk checks are necessary to use the normal Windows link file extension with cygwin additions embedded in them to provide both hard and soft links. > > Also, you didn't tell what do "test -f" and "test -x" do in non-Cygwin > Windows ports of Bash and Sh-utils. I don't think we should ignore > those. > I don't use DJGPP or mingw (the two main non-cygwin windows ports) often enough to know their behavior, but you are right that we can't ignore them. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB8xEa84KuGfSFAYARAqiuAJ9Hi4ovF+2JFFLrdYdwKDK3oKer5ACbBf/e o+Ffsqks2con6kgkdS4h9qg= =lrDE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
