Re: cp incorrectly generating "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link errors"

[Robert Schultheis]

Thanks for the reply!

Indeed within the cygwin environment this stange behavior does not 
happen,  cp -r behaves exactly as I would expect.

The bug does occur within any other command prompt for windows (M$ 
command prompt, and the JPSoft 4NT command prompt).

At some point in time I will get around to upgrading upgrading our 
core-utils, I will let this listserve know if they do fix this issue.

Thanks for all the awesome utilities!

Rob Schultheis
address@hidden
Recognition Research Inc.


Bob Proulx wrote:

> Robert Schultheis wrote:
>  
>
> > I have discovered a bug in cp (fileutils) 4.1, and I am wondering if it 
> > has been fixed in later versions so I can notify our admins to upgrade 
> > our core-utils which is something I can not do myself , however I will 
> > need a dang good reason for them to do it.
> >
> > I am running on Win2000 with SP4 which is likely a contributing factor.
> >    
>
> Thank you for your nice bug report.  But I cannot recreate the problem
> with a recent coreutils.  Because you are running MS-Win2k I suspect
> there were bugs in the ported version that you are running.  There are
> a lot of things that need to be mapped to make a MS system behave.  It
> is a very difficult problem.  Since we generally use GNU systems we
> can't help very much.
>
> You did not say if you were using a Cygwin version of coreutils.  But
> regardless I suggest you contact the Cygwin folks.  They are the
> experts with the MS systems.
>
>  http://cygwin.com/
>
> Hope that helps,
> Bob
>
>