X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:31:34 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: AGAIN - cp: skipping file ... as it was replaced while being copied Message-ID: <20080404123133.GD5532@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20080404003537 DOT GA25295 AT gruh DOT hsd1 DOT ma DOT comcast DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080404003537.GA25295@gruh.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Apr 3 20:35, Ivan Dobrianov wrote: > Hi and sorry for the clutter, but I can't figure it out! > > I have this familiar situation when trying to copy from the network: > > cp //walnetapp01/SRD/LegacyBugs/148000-148999/148708/some_file.txt ./ > > cp: skipping file `//walnetapp01/SRD/LegacyBugs/148000-148999/148708/some_file.txt', as it was replaced while being copied > > Now, I looked through the mailing list archives and found two relevant threads on this subject, namely: > > ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00804.html > ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00525.html > > The thing is that neither of them ends up with a prescription of how to fix the problem :-) > > In message 2006-11/msg00604.html, Corinna says: > > I'm going to add a special case for this file system. Please give the > next developer's snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try. > > Well, here I am in April 2008, with a fresh new Cygwin installation - I am assuming that by now this prblem whould have been resolved in the main branch. Am I wrong? Do I have to do anything special? The patch is in CVS, not in the latest release. You could try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, but for the time being, there's no fix for the release itself. Note that snapshots are not made for production environments. Use at your own risk. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/