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Hi all,

we also run into issues with 9.0 due to the incorrect handling of symlinks.

The coreutils Cygwin repository already includes 9.4 and 9.2 on the 
playground branch [1]. Any plans to release one of these versions?

TIA David


[1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/coreutils/log/?h=playground


On 30.05.24 10:05, Lluís Batlle i Rossell via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> there are 3 coreutils versions in cygwin: 8.26, 8.32 and 9.0.
> 
> 8.32 has a big bug on "cp" that leaks file descriptors. Copying many
> files it dies with Too many open files.
> 
> 9.0 has a bug that makes any chmod fail silently if it is applied to
> symlink.
> 
> Both bugs have the impact that we are stuck to coreutils 8.26 for our
> build scripts, that use 'cp -R' and 'chmod -R' and would otherwise fail.
> 
> Can someone update to a newer coreutils? 9.1 or later.
> 
> (I'm not subscribed to the list, please keep me in Cc)
> 
> Thank you,
> Lluís
> 
> 


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