Problem while copying .EXE files
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jul 12 11:32:00 GMT 2004
On Jul 12 12:00, Mike Lerwill wrote:
> I have tracked this further and can now confirm that running the following
> test case (trimmed down from what cp is actually doing) in a directory which
> already contains a valid test.exe (copy of ls.exe) results in test.exe which
> is a directory not a file.
>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int main (int argc, char * argv[])
> {
> int test_file;
> test_file = open ("test.exe",O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY);
> close (test_file);
> return 0;
> }
>
> I have attached the results of stracing this in case it helps.
I'm sorry but I can't reproduce it. I'm getting a truncated but
still normal file after calling this application. I also don't see
anything strange in your strace output. Looks pretty much like my
strace output, incuding all arguments to NtCreateFile.
Corinna
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