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Re: AGAIN - cp: skipping file ... as it was replaced while being copied


On Apr  3 20:35, Ivan Dobrianov wrote:
> Hi and sorry for the clutter, but I can't figure it out!
> 
> I have this familiar situation when trying to copy from the network:
> 
> cp //walnetapp01/SRD/LegacyBugs/148000-148999/148708/some_file.txt ./
> 
> cp: skipping file `//walnetapp01/SRD/LegacyBugs/148000-148999/148708/some_file.txt', as it was replaced while being copied
> 
> Now, I looked through the mailing list archives and found two relevant threads on this subject, namely:
> 
> ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00804.html
> ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00525.html
> 
> The thing is that neither of them ends up with a prescription of how to fix the problem :-)
> 
> In message 2006-11/msg00604.html, Corinna says:
> 
> I'm going to add a special case for this file system.  Please give the
> next developer's snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.
> 
> Well, here I am in April 2008, with a fresh new Cygwin installation - I am assuming that by now this prblem whould have been resolved in the main branch. Am I wrong? Do I have to do anything special?

The patch is in CVS, not in the latest release.  You could try the
latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, but for the
time being, there's no fix for the release itself.  Note that snapshots
are not made for production environments.  Use at your own risk.


Corinna

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