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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