Re: Request: please update to coreutils >=9.1

2024-10-18 Thread Brian Inglis via Cygwin
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

Re: Request: please update to coreutils >=9.1

2024-10-18 Thread David Engraf via Cygwin
Hi all, 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? TIA David [1] https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/coreutils/log/?h=p

Request: please update to coreutils >=9.1

2024-05-30 Thread LluĂ­s Batlle i Rossell via Cygwin
Hello, 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 s