From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from omta002.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net (omta002.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net [3.97.99.33]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EEAD83884560 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2022 03:52:25 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org EEAD83884560 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=SystematicSw.ab.ca Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=systematicsw.ab.ca Received: from shw-obgw-4004a.ext.cloudfilter.net ([10.228.9.227]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id yDkhnhLs3Wi4QyQGAnWuKd; Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:52:02 +0000 Received: from [10.0.0.5] ([184.64.124.72]) by cmsmtp with ESMTP id yQGWndp2OsF60yQGWnASyS; Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:52:24 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=Z8n/oVdA c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=629ecb79 a=oHm12aVswOWz6TMtn9zYKg==:117 a=oHm12aVswOWz6TMtn9zYKg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=94nOnFI1EgyDtX4ev68A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-ID: <2012d151-f573-4790-552a-dbbb18c56d02@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 21:52:24 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: coreutils 9.1 cp problem Content-Language: en-CA To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Brian Inglis Organization: Systematic Software In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfGhfhr6siveFSYxBCrIMpPP5e0gcgQenT6i9Fva+UM1eO6fiPshLTs7TVv472yKwVJaJy22XkFRpAeBLGqq1WspIyv01n3zoRC3/O0frmb7RmbSyyOmT eqT/CQEtyhzXDnb2gW1NT6miEmta7DTbggUu3PZZulHHuFYX+5Oawi8ilRbkGcnY0i2KgPvWbSnzjMbwKiWrqRoemvwgqrKuFeA= X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1165.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_NONE, TXREP, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 03:52:27 -0000 Hi Fergus, Verified and confirmed. Please reinstall 8.32 until I can get this reverted in setup. Have requested 9.1 be reverted to test and 8.32 reverted to current stable. On 2022-06-06 21:21, Fergus Daly wrote: > Since updating from coreutils 8.32 I’m getting a weird glitch from cp. > If /location1/dir1/ contains additional material to /location2/dir1/ (as might frequently be the case when maintaining a backup) then the command > $ cp -vrn /location1/dir1 /location2 > should copy the additional material across. (I do this regularly, working in two locations on two machines with a stick to manage the transactions.) > Since updating coreutils, this command yields an error message as follows: > $ cp -vrn /location1/dir1 /location2 > /bin/cp: cannot create directory '/location2/dir1': File exists > I haven’t tried any other variations on cp or explored any other commands (e.g. ls) that have altered with the update. > This occurs in both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in binary units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]