From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:08:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unnecessary loop
Message-ID: <81b0412b0705080208x3713cbc1y3c870383b586c877@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4640015F.1080407@gmail.com>

On 5/8/07, Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com> wrote:
> +#ifdef __CYGWIN__
> +               /*
> +                * On cygwin, lstat("hello", &st) returns 0 when
> +                * "hello.exe" exists, so test with open() again.
> +                */
> +               if (lstat(match, &st) && -1 != (fd = open(match, O_RDONLY))) {

This does not "test again" if lstat returns 0. If lstat returns 0
(file stat info
obtained) the open is not even called. Besides, cygwin lies not only about
.exe but also about .lnk files.

P.S. Somehow I have the feeling that even if it is a stupidity in cygwin
they will not fix it (nor will they admit it is a bug).