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: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:09:45 -0500 From: Wayne Willcox To: Upat54wo@aol.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cp returns status of 1 Message-ID: <20011018150945.A92113@reliant.immure.com> Reply-To: Wayne Willcox References: <33.1c906c2a.290055e4@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <33.1c906c2a.290055e4@aol.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD reliant.knighthammer.com 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE what version of windows are you using? Win9x is particularly bad about returning incorrect return codes. Of course what win9x returns is a 0 not a 1 in my experience. This is because Windows really does not use a return code like UNIX does. Windows returns a 0 in pretty much all conditions. When I am writing code for Windows9x I never depend on the return code, it is usually wrong. what are the servers NT , UNIX and Samba, AIX and cifs? On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Upat54wo@aol.com wrote: > Can someone explan to me why "cp - /cygdrive/x/file /cygdrive/y/file" returns a status of 1? > > Both drives are mapped drives and are on different servers. Comparing bytes through Explorer indicates source and destination files are identical. Cygwin is set up with "binmode" as the default. > > Thanks! > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ... Wayne Willcox I will not eat green eggs and ham wayne@reliant.immure.com I will not eat them Sam I Am!! A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese proverb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/