Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote:
>> From: Max Bowsher
>> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:38 PM
>
>> $ touch foo.exe
>> $ cp foo bar
>> cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
>>
>> The above error message is rather confusing.
>>
>> Is Cygwin's cp supposed to transparently permit the omission of
>> the .exe extension, or am I misremembering?
>
> cp and mv comes out of the same box (same source file) and both seems to
> have problems with this. I had a look some time ago but came to no
> conclusion, primarily due to limited time to begin with.
>
> This has been on the list several times before, AFAIK (from reading here)
> no-one has made efforts to do anything about it.
> IIRC/Long shot/Long time no see: Seems to be some kind of interaction with
> (was it?)stat() beeing "hacked" to check for <file>.exe also, as <file> is
> scanned for. (mv using rename for moving?)
Yes, the problem is that stat("foo") will transparently stat("foo.exe"), but
open("foo") then fails. 'cp' then makes an assumption
about why this might occur, and displays a nonsense error message.
I suppose the answer is to simply patch coreutils to give a better error message in
this case.
Max.
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