Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks From: fergus Reply-To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 04:43:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1120880636.6400.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I use ln -s /cygdrive/c /c ln -s /cygdrive/f /f etc as a convenient mechanism to arrange that the shorthand /c/{pathname} can be used instead of the longer /cygdrive/c/{pathname}. I only have to do this once and if I had not happened for other reasons to need to re-create these links I would not have noticed the following; but I did need to. Following the recent upgrade to cygutils I find that the symlink is created as /c.exe not /c and /f.exe not /f in cases where the drive exists. Where it doesn't (e.g. it isn't plugged in but might be later so I am just preparing the way) then ln -s /cygdrive/h /h works as before: the symlink /h exists, and is not called /h.exe. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/