Re: Make and .exe Files
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 07:21:58AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Jakob Eriksson wrote:
>>Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>At least on NT you can execute a program without a .exe suffix but if
>>>you create a non executable file name such as a .lnk file then you're
>>>liable to crash the OS. I.E.: If you ``ln -s foo foo.exe'' what is
>>>created in reality is foo.exe.lnk and when you try to execute that, it
>>>won't work.
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>>Hard link then. NT supports hard links, AFAIK.
>>``ln foo foo.exe''
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>
>NTFS supports hard links, and Cygwin makes use of that, however, FAT32
>even on NT doesn't so Cygwin does some magic to make it work. However,
>that magic involves funny file names and file attributes that will cause
>CreateProcess problems.
The magic that cygwin does to make hard link work on non-NTFS
filesystems is "copy the file". There are no funny file names or file
attributes.
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