cp.exe bug
Mark Blackburn
marklist@fangorn.ca
Tue Mar 16 11:27:00 GMT 2004
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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