Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <005301c4e87c$8ad2b530$5709a443@c40624a> From: "Raye Raskin" To: , References: <004601c4e87c$2efd2fb0$5709a443@c40624a> Subject: Re: bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:18:26 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes >> Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an >> executable, I get "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" when I try to >> run the copied file. >> >> The copied file also now differs from the original. >> >> $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe >> -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe >> >> $ cp /bin/sum.exe copysum.exe >> >> $ ls -l copysum.exe >> -rwxr-x--- 1 sam None 26713 Dec 22 14:35 copysum.exe >> >> $ cmp /bin/sum.exe copysum.exe >> /bin/sum.exe copysum.exe differ: char 119, line 1 >> >> $ ./copysum.exe >> This program cannot be run in DOS mode. >> >> >> Anybody else experiencing this? I have tested this out on three different >> computers that have been updated today, all produce the same results. On a >> box thats running the older cygwin, cp copies the files exactly and I have >> no trouble running them. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Sam > > Works fine for me. Maybe you'd better do > > $ which cp > $ which ls Oh, and maybe $ alias cp $ alias ls ...just to see what's happening. > > ...and for good measure, > > $ /bin/sum.exe > > You may find that /bin/sum.exe is *not* what you run when you run > "sum". > > FYI, for me, running sum or ./copysum.exe just hangs, it is waiting > for stdin. So I ran the --version option to each, just to see them > do something. > > HTH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/