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 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:27:00 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cp -p fails with .exe files Message-ID: <20010621142700.B9643@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200106191703.SAA04976@trillian.uk.aonix.com> <000701c0fa60$989b4190$4500f98c@EMMAROSE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <000701c0fa60$989b4190$4500f98c@EMMAROSE>; from litterio@pyxsys.net on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:43:53AM -0400 On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:43:53AM -0400, Francis Litterio wrote: >Cliff Hones wrote: > >> Cygwin cp is ".exe" aware - meaning that "cp xxx yyy" will copy >xxx.exe to >> yyy.exe if xxx.exe exists (and xxx does not). But "cp -p xxx yyy" >fails - >> it does the copy then reports that it is unable to preserve the time >for "yyy". > >This may be related (I see it in 1.3.1): > > bash$ rm -f foo bar foo.exe bar.exe # Just to start clean. > bash$ touch foo.exe > bash$ cp foo bar > cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file > >Apologies if this has been brought up before. It is not related. fileutils was specifically updated to work around this problem. Apparently I missed the -p option, though. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple