Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:03:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Weird bug with cp -f Message-ID: <20041003040342.GA25772@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <000601c4a90d$0d18bad0$210110ac AT NEEEEEEE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000601c4a90d$0d18bad0$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:51:38PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote: >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 ... Works just fine for me. (WJJFM?) Reading http://cygwin.com/problems.html would probably be helpful. -- 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/