Weird bug with cp -f

[Brian Dessent]

Dave Miles wrote:

>   Administrator@stack01 /cygdrive/c
>   $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0
>   cp: cannot stat `cyg.out': No such file or directory

>   Administrator@stack01 /cygdrive/c
>   $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0
>   cp: writing `cyg.out.0': Invalid request code

My guess is that your permissions on the C: root include some weird
ACLs.  Post the output of "xcacls c:/" and for any other directory or
location that the problem occurs, and for a location where it works
fine.

Brian

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