bug? cp and coreutils-5.2.1-2

[Raye Raskin]

>> Just updated my Cygwin. If I use cp to copy a file, in this case an 
>> executable, I get "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" when I try to 
>> run the copied file.
>> 
>> The copied file also now differs from the original.
>> 
>> $ ls -l /bin/sum.exe
>> -rwxr-x---+ 1 sam Users 26624 Dec 21 02:32 /bin/sum.exe
>> 
>> $ cp /bin/sum.exe copysum.exe
>> 
>> $ ls -l copysum.exe
>> -rwxr-x---  1 sam None 26713 Dec 22 14:35 copysum.exe
>> 
>> $ cmp /bin/sum.exe copysum.exe
>> /bin/sum.exe copysum.exe differ: char 119, line 1
>> 
>> $ ./copysum.exe
>> This program cannot be run in DOS mode.
>> 
>> 
>> Anybody else experiencing this? I have tested this out on three different 
>> computers that have been updated today, all produce the same results. On a 
>> box thats running the older cygwin, cp copies the files exactly and I have 
>> no trouble running them.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
> 
> Works fine for me.  Maybe you'd better do
> 
> $ which cp
> $ which ls

Oh, and maybe

$ alias cp
$ alias ls

...just to see what's happening.

> 
> ...and for good measure,
> 
> $ /bin/sum.exe
> 
> You may find that /bin/sum.exe is *not* what you run when you run
> "sum".
> 
> FYI, for me, running sum or ./copysum.exe just hangs, it is waiting
> for stdin.  So I ran the --version option to each, just to see them
> do something.
> 
> HTH


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