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From: Duncan Murdoch <dmurdoch AT pair DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: "cp: will not create hard link"
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 19:43:32 -0500
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:51:48 -0500, I wrote:

>To the Cygwin mailing list:
>
>Back in January, Thomas Baker (who is BCC'd on this) posted a question
>about a large call to cp giving an error message about not being able
>to create a hard link.  Ref:
><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00890.html>.
>
>I've just upgraded cygwin from 1.3.22-1 (March 18, 2003) to a couple
>of different 1.5.x versions, including 1.5.5-1 (Sept 20, 2003), and
>have started getting this error.
>
>It happens in a build script that is copying about 30 directories that
>contain around 3000 files in total.
>
>Does anyone know what's going wrong here, or any workarounds other
>than "don't upgrade"?

I think I've tracked this down.  My path contained an old version of
cp.exe, ahead of the newly installed one.  It must have been
incompatible with the newly installed cygwin dll.

Duncan Murdoch

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