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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:37:30 -0000
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.19-1
Sam Steingold wrote:
>
> not only cygwin "drops extension" from argv[0] (as your bug report
> says),
That's not a bug, it's a vital feature. Consider all those Unix-y programs
that perform different functions according to the filename you invoke them
with. Most of them just use "if (!strcmp (argv[0], "name"))" constructs that
would fail if the .exe extension was left on. Clipping it off is probably the
best portability-vs-bugs tradeoff for cygwin.
cheers,
DaveK
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