This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: .exe magic


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Here's a naive thought.  See if it makes any sense.  We have lots of
complicated logic to try to transparently handle ".exe" extensions.
We have ".exe" extensions because Windows 9x/Me requires it to execute
binaries.  For the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release (date TBD), we're dropping
support for Windows 9x/Me.  Does it follow that complex ".exe" logic
could be dropped from 1.7 as a result?

We have quite some Scheduled Tasks that run bash scripts. The command line is like this:
C:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c /home/administrator/MySQL-backup.sh


It starts in C:\Cygwin\bin and they work fine right now. I have just tested it (copied bash.exe to bash_test) and it does not seem to be a problem for Scheduled task.

BUT when I open a command prompt, go to c:\cygwin\bin and try start bash_test it does not find it. Just bash starts fine.

  C:\Cygwin\bin>bash
  bash-3.2$ exit

  C:\Cygwin\bin>bash_test
  bash_test wordt niet herkend als een interne
  of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand.

Also tested with from within a .bat file and is has the same problem.

  C:\>type test.bat
  c:\cygwin\bin\bash_test

C:\>test

  C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\bash_test
  c:\cygwin\bin\bash_test wordt niet herkend als een interne
  of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand.

Sorry, but I don't like this idea. It seems to break too much for us.

Regards,
Frank

P.S. All test done on Dutch Windows XP.

--
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/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]