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> From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 04:01:17 GMT
> 
> cp.exe from fil41b.zip (beta) has a bug.
> If mydirectory directory contains more than 2000 files,
> and no sub directory inside (maybe this is not related).
> 
> C:> cp -r mydirectory newdir
> cp: cannot access `mydirectory': No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> C:>
> 
> However, mydirectory does exist and is accessable.
> If I use cp.exe from fil41b.zip (alpha), the copy is successful.

Thanks for the report.

Perhaps you could download the Fileutils sources, step with a debugger
inside the source of cp.c, and see what is going wrong there.  That
would make it easier to identify and fix the bug.

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