Revert coreutils 9.1 to test 8.32 to curr stable

[Brian Inglis]

Verified below issue with coreutils 9.1 promoted last night to stable!
Problem does not occur in 8.32, so can we please revert coreutils 9.1 to 
test and restore 8.32 to stable.
Or is there some process by which I can do so?


On 2022-05-24 10:33, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> The following test package has been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>
>> * coreutils     9.1
> 
> I am having a problem with "cp" that is not present in the previous
> (non-test) version.  I'm running the latest Cygwin on Windows 10:
> 
>      CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19044 8PZCBK3 3.3.5-341.x86_64 2022-05-13 12:27 UTC
> x86_64 Cygwin
> 
> 
> The "cp" commands are in a Makefile.  These are all text (not binary)
> files.  "here" is a directory.
> 
> if [ -a 2022/QSN2205.EXC ]; then cp -pvf 2022/QSN2205.EXC here; fi
> if [ -a 2022/QSN2205.TXT ]; then cp -pvf 2022/QSN2205.TXT here; fi
> if [ -a 2022/ignore.csv  ]; then cp -pvf 2022/ignore.csv  here; fi
> 
> 
> These are the target files that are being copied *to*:
> 
> -rw-rw----+ 1 jr920141 Domain Users    11022 May 23 08:01 here/ignore.csv
> -rw-rw----+ 1 jr920141 Domain Users   303543 May 23 10:25 here/QSN2205.EXC
> -rw-rw----+ 1 jr920141 Domain Users 14395440 May 23 08:00 here/QSN2205.TXT
> 
> 
> These are the source files that are being copied *from*:
> 
> -rw-rw----+ 1 jr920141 Domain Users    11303 May 24 08:20 ignore.csv
> -rw-rw----+ 1 jr920141 Domain Users    20944 May 24 10:17 QSN2205.EXC
> -rw-rw----+ 1 jr920141 Domain Users 14941120 May 24 08:19 QSN2205.TXT
> 
> 
> It just so happens that the files are (now) the same.  I had already done
> the copy and no longer have the old files that were in the "here"
> directory.  But it doesn't matter whether the files are the same or
> different.  The problem still occurs.
> 
> This is the result:
> 
> [8PZCBK3:~/DXspots] $ make here
> 
> '2022/QSN2205.EXC' -> 'here/QSN2205.EXC'
> '2022/QSN2205.TXT' -> 'here/QSN2205.TXT'
> cp: cannot create regular file 'here/QSN2205.TXT': File exists
> 
> 
> It makes no sense to me that the .EXC file was copied overtop of the
> existing file, file but the .TXT file was not.  The TXT file has DOS line
> endings.  The EXC file does not.  I don't see why that would/should make a
> difference.
> 
> cygcheck.out is attached.
> 
> 


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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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