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From: "Ben Wing" <ben AT 666 DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Weird bug with cp -f
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 22:51:38 -0700
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Try this, latest Cygwin, Win2k latest:

/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2049% cat > foo
foo [hit ^D]
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2050% od -bc foo
0000000 146 157 157 015 012
          f   o   o  \r  \n
0000005
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2051% cp foo bar
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2052% cp -f foo bar
cp: writing `bar': Invalid request code
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2053% ls -ld bar
drwxrwxrwx+   2 Ben Wing None            0 Oct  2 22:40 bar/
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2054%

Clever, no?  Somehow, your file magically got converted into a directory ...



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