Try this, latest Cygwin, Win2k latest:
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2049% cat > foo
foo [hit ^D]
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2050% od -bc foo
0000000 146 157 157 015 012
f o o \r \n
0000005
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2051% cp foo bar
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2052% cp -f foo bar
cp: writing `bar': Invalid request code
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2053% ls -ld bar
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 Ben Wing None 0 Oct 2 22:40 bar/
/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2054%
Clever, no? Somehow, your file magically got converted into a directory ...
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