Re: cp.exe bug

[Mark Blackburn <marklist at fangorn dot ca>]

Mark Blackburn wrote:

> Ross Boulet wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Above is the makefile which produced the error.  The cause seems to 
> > be cp's
> > handling of a .exe file.  A simple way to get what I now see as a 
> > misleading
> > error message from cp is:
> >
> > $ touch foo.exe
> > $ cp foo bar    # note the absence of the .exe extension
> > cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
> >  
> This problem still exists in the coreutils-5.2.0-1 package that I have 
> recently posted on cygwin-apps.
Correction: cp in coreutils returns the following message in the above case:
cp: cannot open `foo' for reading: No such file or directory

[...]

Mark Blackburn

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