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Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 09:30:41 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [NPERS] Re: Weird bug with cp -f
Message-ID: <20041003133041.GA301213@hpn5170>
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On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 03:36:51AM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
> 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 ...

Perhaps it was a directory before the initial cp. Show us.

Pierre

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