Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B001DD1.7CDDF361@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:02:57 -0400 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Cygwin Users X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with cp'ing executables References: <20010514125855.A8574@redhat.com> <3B0014E3.4DC3CFC2@yahoo.com> <20010514133111.A9139@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple