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Re: Weird bug with cp -f
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:03:42 -0400
- Subject: Re: Weird bug with cp -f
- References: <000601c4a90d$0d18bad0$210110ac@NEEEEEEE>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
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