1.5.18-1 + coreutils 5.3.0 + DFS/widelinks => bug?

Hi -- I've hit a problem with cygwin 1.5.18-1 and "cp" from coreutils 5.3.0. mark-dsktp:software% cp -a /tools/Cygwin/1.5.3-1/cygwin/tools/bin /home/mark/foobar cp: skipping file `/tools/Cygwin/1.5.3-1/cygwin/tools/bin/p4.exe', as it was replaced while being copied cp: skipping file `/tools/Cy

cygwin 1.5.18-1 + Perl + open-pipe + native executable

Hi -- I've hit a problem with 1.5.18-1 and the Perl open pipe command: open(SRC, "| $prog") If $prog is a cygwin executable, everything works fine. If $prog implies a shell-exec (rather than an exec), e.g., by including quoting characters so that /bin/sh is called as a wrapper, everything wor

Re: cygwin 1.5.18-1 + Perl + open-pipe + native executable

Brian wrote: Your test case works fine with the current CVS build of Cygwin, so whatever was causing this has probably already been fixed. Thanks, that's good to know. I should have tried it myself. Using the snaphot 12/13/2005 build of cygwin1.dll it indeed works. Rene wrote: If $prog is