X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C0E662C.7040901@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:47:56 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-3.fc13 Lightning/1.0b2pre Mnenhy/0.8.2 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 'cp' utility bug when .exe file exist. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8EB8C41E2E9295D425A8003C" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 --------------enig8EB8C41E2E9295D425A8003C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/08/2010 09:42 AM, RISINGP1 AT nationwide DOT com wrote: > As to the "cp" issue, while IMHO, it should go ahead and do the copy, > a more instructive error message would be helpful: >=20 > cp: cannot create regular file `my': File 'my.exe' exists Huh? Do the copy, then give a failure message? No. A failure message should only occur if the copy failed. Did you mean "continue to fail, but make the failure message more friendly?" If so: Patches to coreutils welcome. But be aware that this error message uses the equivalent of perror(), where EEXIST would not have quite that wording. In other words, such a patch would be pretty invasive, to recognize the exact errno value that cygwin1.dll returns in this particular failure-to-create case, then massaging just that error case into your desired message, so I probably won't be writing the patch any time soon (I've got higher-priority things on my plate at the moment). Or did you mean "change it to succeed, in spite of the naming conflict", in which case there is no failure message and nothing to patch in coreutils. --=20 Eric Blake eblake AT redhat DOT com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig8EB8C41E2E9295D425A8003C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJMDmYsAAoJEKeha0olJ0Nq0LQH/Az8LfvkfiXlBu9p4hic2Mtt ykONcB2N3pNzYToHNIaa86kudE8BXXbrqjgxmWstqppTwiSHhXGY4szduwauFk5Z Ig09h2RIPGpVPA3U5MpUJEdZoWn27LjwkYW/LSrocSicQ3DGzjtGkPVsGRI0TQD9 Rjrg03aulOyR2IETD/fg5OZx9q9Um2x4/AT3qMvHmOylDW5F95vSSDcKjc0t2+wq kmjlUC/2AWzxGiZXDIvsI57qV+y0OJWrsX7nAwQldCaE5015ywG6a6O1YBAj1ys/ DVSnzOxoTEB/xiOig4VarUR1lNvTH9wBhTYtao3EwcRQO/7tdtGXiQ0rsFv4xaM= =NVQI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8EB8C41E2E9295D425A8003C--