Greetings, Eric Blake! >> As to the "cp" issue, while IMHO, it should go ahead and do the copy, >> a more instructive error message would be helpful: >> >> cp: cannot create regular file `my': File 'my.exe' exists
> Huh? Do the copy, then give a failure message? No. A failure message > should only occur if the copy failed. > Did you mean "continue to fail, but make the failure message more > friendly?" I'm pretty sure he did mean exactly that. But I do see the problem in determining exact case of failure to provide such informative error message. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 08.06.2010, <20:04> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple