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Date:	Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:15:45 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>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.


It seems that cp.c source code has the same version for alpha and beta.
It can be told by running cp --version.

What changes are made for alpha and beta of fileutils?

thanks.

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