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On Aug 10 16:24, Steven Hartland wrote:
> In this example the result was nothing worked as the myexe is a none native
> binary only myexe.exe is a windows exe, but I wouldnt be surprised if there
> are cases where you have and exe and a data file with the name the same
> just the app with the .exe with the extension.

But it will definitely not be part of Cygwin and it shouldn't happen
in a Cygwin environment.

> It might be a silly idea but would it potentially be an option to alter
> this behaviour based on an cygwin environment variable, so that the past
> behaviour is restored for wider compatibility.

Sorry, but no.  The switch existed in 1.5.25 (CYGWIN=transparent_exe)
but has been explicitely removed in 1.7.


Corinna

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