Request: please update to coreutils >=9.1

[Brian Inglis]

Hi folks,

I had to revert 9.1, as with 9.1+, cp fails to overwrite existing files even 
with -f and just complains the files exist!

I have traced the heck out of the operations and have been unable to track down 
exactly what it is (not?) doing to decide not to check if the files exist and 
not detect and handle existing files!

If anyone else has any ideas where it is going wrong, or how to fix what is 
going wrong, please let me know, and I can release a patched version.


On 2024-10-18 07:29, David Engraf via Cygwin wrote:
> we also run into issues with 9.0 due to the incorrect handling of symlinks.
> 
> The coreutils Cygwin repository already includes 9.4 and 9.2 on the playground 
> branch [1]. Any plans to release one of these versions?

> On 30.05.24 10:05, Lluís Batlle i Rossell via Cygwin wrote:
>> there are 3 coreutils versions in cygwin: 8.26, 8.32 and 9.0.
>>
>> 8.32 has a big bug on "cp" that leaks file descriptors. Copying many
>> files it dies with Too many open files.
>>
>> 9.0 has a bug that makes any chmod fail silently if it is applied to
>> symlink.
>>
>> Both bugs have the impact that we are stuck to coreutils 8.26 for our
>> build scripts, that use 'cp -R' and 'chmod -R' and would otherwise fail.
>>
>> Can someone update to a newer coreutils? 9.1 or later.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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