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Re: cp command fails when copying from a network drive


On Nov 23 11:52, John Cooper wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>  > Can you please make an experiment?  Just call `ls -i' a couple of
> 
> Yes, the inode numbers do differ:

Yeah, that was expected.  Thanks for confirming.

I can't stop wondering what people thin when implementing "random" file
ids resp. inode numbers.  Stuff like that should be reported back to
manufacturer *hint* *hint*

> > 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.
> 
> OK, I'll look out for it. I've never installed a snapshot before - will
> it be sufficient to just take an updated cygwin1.dll (presumably in
> cygwin1-200611xx.tar.bz2) or do I also need an updated `cp' command? 

The DLL will suffice.


Corinna

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