RE: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> > The moral of the story is "Expect illogical issues to crop > up if you > > run invasive programs that install low-level hooks all throughout > > various system APIs." > > "... when they come from norton or symantec." > > I successfully run perfectly invasive programs which install > low-l

Re: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Reini Urban
Brian Dessent schrieb: Dave Miles wrote: Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created directory" now appears when using 'cp'. So I tried to re-format it and was denied. On investigation it turned out th

RE: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Miles > Sent: 05 October 2004 16:06 > > Agreed! > > Although I'm pretty sure that prior releases of Cygwin have > co-existed with Mr Norton quite happily. > > Did the original poster have Norton enabled? > > Anyone else care t

RE: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Lerwill
> > Although I'm pretty sure that prior releases of Cygwin have > co-existed with Mr Norton quite happily. > > Did the original poster have Norton enabled? > > Anyone else care to comment? > > Cheerio, > > Dave Miles I was also experiencing this problem occasionally and in my case it was the Nor

Re: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Miles
"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dave Miles wrote: > > > > Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the > > > newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created > > > directory" now appears when using 'cp'.

Re: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Miles wrote: > > Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the > > newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created > > directory" now appears when using 'cp'. > > So I tried to re-format it and was denied. On investigation > it turned out that

Re: Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Miles
"Dave Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Since re-starting the system and repeating the copy on drive O: (the > newly created NTFS partition that 'cp' worked in) the "magically created > directory" now appears when using 'cp'. So I tried to re-format it and was

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Miles
"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dave Miles wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c > > $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0 > > cp: cannot stat `cyg.out': No such file or directory > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c > > $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0 > > cp:

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Miles wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c > $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0 > cp: cannot stat `cyg.out': No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c > $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0 > cp: writing `cyg.out.0': Invalid request code My guess is that your permissions on the C: root

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Miles
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:10:34AM +0100, Dave Miles wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:03:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>>Works just fine for me. > >>> > >>>(WJJFM?) > >>

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:10:34AM +0100, Dave Miles wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:03:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>Works just fine for me. >>> >>>(WJJFM?) >> >>Try again: WJFFM. > >But has not worked for me for some time on Win2K. It works fine for me o

Re: [NPERS] Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-03 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 03:36:51AM -0700, Ben Wing wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:51:38PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote: > >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 > >000 146 1

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:03:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Works just fine for me. > >(WJJFM?) Try again: WJFFM. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:51:38PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote: >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 >000 146 157 157 015 012 > f o o \r \n >005 >/xemacs/cygbuild/b

Weird bug with cp -f

2004-10-02 Thread Ben Wing
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 000 146 157 157 015 012 f o o \r \n 005 /xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2051% cp foo bar /xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2052