[1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks

Wed Dec 24 04:11:00 GMT 2008

Cygwin 1.7-37 and -36 misname certain hardlinks by adding an extra .exe 
extention: e.g.
	ln vgaoem.fon ..
creates vgaoem.fon.exe in the parent directory, not vgaoem.fon as expected.
The same bug occurs with
	cp -l vgaoem.fon ..
This bug occurs when hardlinking all .fon files I have tried, most .sys 
files, and some .dll, .com, .drv, .scr, .tlb, ...etc files. The bug 
appears consistent: a given file either always or never gets misnamed.
The bug appears specific to hardlinks:
	ln -s vgaoem.fon and cp vgaoem.fon
behave as expected without this bug.
I see this bug on 2 computers running 2 different versions of Windows. 
Cygcheck.out is attached from each computer.
This bug is present in Cygwin 1.7.0-37 and 1.7.0-36. I have not tested 
earlier 1.7 builds.
This bug appears new to Cygwin 1.7 and not present in Cygwin 1.5.25-15.
Since this bug occurs when hardlinking only some files, I'm attaching 
vgaoem.fon (6 KB).
Holiday Greetings,
Lawrence
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