Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4162A034.253DACBF@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 06:23:00 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Weird bug with cp -f References: <000601c4a90d$0d18bad0$210110ac@NEEEEEEE> <20041003040342.GA25772@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041003041441.GB25772@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20041004231101.E08D01B3F9@cgf.cx> <20041005000738.GA6013@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Dave Miles wrote: > Administrator@stack01 /cygdrive/c > $ cp cyg.out cyg.out.0 > cp: cannot stat `cyg.out': No such file or directory > Administrator@stack01 /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 include some weird ACLs. Post the output of "xcacls c:/" and for any other directory or location that the problem occurs, and for a location where it works fine. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/