From 1a95d85bf69c811b987e73b4fd59bee138afdf58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: corinna Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:41:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * pathnames.sgml: Change text for the order in which executables are evaluated. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 1eb86c5c41..4ae01a8a6c 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-07-18 Corinna Vinschen + + * pathnames.sgml: Change text for the order in which executables + are evaluated. + 2006-06-01 Joshua Daniel Franklin * faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.automated): New FAQ. diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml index 608f7f31da..5ab09e472a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml @@ -308,9 +308,11 @@ a a.exe b.exe 432961010 b 432961010 b.exe If a shell script myprog and a program -myprog.exe coexist in a directory, the program -has precedence and is selected for execution of -myprog. +myprog.exe coexist in a directory, the shell +script has precedence and is selected for execution of +myprog. Note that this was quite the reverse up to +Cygwin 1.5.19. It has been changed for consistency with the rest of Cygwin. + The gcc compiler produces an executable named filename.exe when asked to produce -- 2.11.0