X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48081622.5030405@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:31:46 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution References: <20080416064211 DOT 40A7F84237 AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> <48080FC4 DOT 4090108 AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au> In-Reply-To: <48080FC4.4090108@cisra.canon.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 04/17/2008, Luke Kendall wrote: > Mark J. Reed wrote: > > I still don't understand why you would put the ici dir in the same > > place as the ici script. You can't do that on Unix, so why do it on > > Cygwin? > > > > > The creator did this because simply it seemed a convenient way to keep all > the ici components together and easy to install and uninstall, and it also > caused no problems for the Windows cmd.exe shell. cmd doesn't try to > execute directories as if they were programs. ici has been around for > about 25 years, so it wasn't designed with Cygwin in mind. Everything didn't have to be named ici though. But that's besides the point. Cygwin doesn't attempt to execute directories. It uses stat() to find out what type of thing "foo" is. Then it uses that information to decide how to handle "foo". -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/