Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/14/14:12:25
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:24:51PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:51:08AM -0400, Paul Stodghill wrote:
> >> >I see a strange bug when trying to copy an executable from one directory to
> >> >another.
> >> >
> >> >If the command "cp /dir/exec-name /dir2/exec-name" is used, the copy fails
> >> >with an error message that the two files "are the same file". But,
> >> >"cp /dir/exec-name.exe /dir2/exec-name.exe" works.
> >> >
> >> >I don't believe this was a problem with 1.1.8, but it is a problem with
> >> >1.3.1 and with 5/13 snapshot.
> >>
> >> Instead of "not believing" it would be tremendously helpful if you could
> >> verify that fact.
> >>
> >
> >FWIIW, this issue has always been an issue. It has to do with stat
> >returning for /foo/bar when the file is actually /foo/bar.exe.
>
> But the "same file" distinction should be based on inodes, I believe and
> the inodes should be different in this case.
>
> I would just expect a different error message than "are the same file".
>
It's probably an incorrect error message from cp or _errno is not
correct. The fact is /foo/bar doesn't exist to copy when the physical
file name is /foo/bar.exe.
Hmm... Was there a Cygwin fix to cp.c in previous versions of
fileutils?
Earnie.
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