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RE: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:55:36 -0600
- Subject: RE: skipping file `...', as it was replaced while being copied
- References: <4D2782F6.9060103@redhat.com>
> From: Eric Blake
> On 01/07/2011 01:06 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> > Using Cygwin 1.7.7, the following behavior started recently,
> > but I can't think of any change that may be the culprit:
>
> I can. Most likely, you recently ran setup.exe and upgraded tar.
Indeed. :-)
> Upstream tar includes a patch to make it more picky about stat()
> structures changing behind the scenes, that older tar was ignoring.
> Which in turn is exposing (yet another) buggy file system that cygwin
> needs to be taught how to work around.
I'm guessing that the tar patch patched more than just tar because:
1) I wasn't invoking tar, just cp; and
2) after downgrading tar to 1.23-1, the behavior persists.
How should I downgrade to previous (working) behavior?
--Ken Nellis