Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:54:21 +0300 Message-Id: <200106091254.PAA21647@linux.> From: "Ehud Karni" To: kerry@bytedesigns.com Subject: Re: Problem with system commands: cp and mv CC: cygwin@cygwin.com In-reply-to: <04e701c0f076$66326600$c600a8c0@kssony> (message from Kerry Sanger on Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:54:01 -0700) Organization: Simon & Wiesel Insurance agency Reply-to: ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il References: <04e701c0f076$66326600$c600a8c0@kssony> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 rmail (send-msg 1.104) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:54:01 -0700, Kerry Sanger wrote: > > I can't cp or mv any simple executable..example: > > simple C program - expire.c > > compile and link expire.c: > > gcc -c -I. expire.c > gcc expire.o -o expire > > from the current directory where the expire > executable exists and where a subdirectory util > exists: cp expire util/ > -or- cp expire util/expire > -or- mv expire util/ > -or- mv expire util/expire > > all return: 'expire and util/expire are the same file'..eh? > there is no util/expire..so what's it seeing/comparing? > > I can cp or mv any other flat file or library ( .a ) I've > created to util..just not any of the executables. > > cygwin seems to think the current path and the > current path/util are the same as though I were > attempting: cp expire ./expire > ( in which case I would expect the error: > expire and expire are the same file ). > > I can go to a dos window and: > > copy dcheck.exe util > -or- copy dcheck.exe util\ > -or- copy dcheck.exe util\dcheck I verified the problem on W98 too. It also occurs with hardlink (ln) but not with symbolic link (ln -s) presumably because `ln -s' does not check file existence. A very easy solution (workaround ?) is to use the file name with the .exe extension (checked\). e.g. In your case: cp expire.exe util/ -or- mv expire.exe util) Ehud. -- Ehud Karni Mivtach - Simon Insurance /"\ Tel: +972-3-6212-757 Fax: +972-3-6292-544 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign (USA) Fax and voice mail: 1-815-5509341 X Against HTML Mail Better Safe Than Sorry / \ mailto:ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il http://www.simonwiesel.co.il -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple