Also note that the same files I saw dated "Aug 21" are now dated "Aug 23"; see below. So, yes, dates on these files do matter. (Other utils like pkill also were failing, etc.)
Lester /bin% ls -l |grep "Aug 23" -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 21543 Aug 23 10:34 free.exe -rwxrwxr-x 2 ingber ingber 37415 Aug 23 10:34 pgrep.exe -rwxrwxr-x 2 ingber ingber 37415 Aug 23 10:34 pkill.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 27175 Aug 23 10:34 pmap.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 28199 Aug 23 10:34 prockill.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 109095 Aug 23 10:34 procps.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 11303 Aug 23 10:34 pwdx.exe -rwxrwxr-x 2 ingber ingber 28199 Aug 23 10:34 skill.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 18471 Aug 23 10:34 slabtop.exe -rwxrwxr-x 2 ingber ingber 28199 Aug 23 10:34 snice.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 21031 Aug 23 10:34 tload.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 87079 Aug 23 10:34 top.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 20519 Aug 23 10:34 uptime.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 32295 Aug 23 10:34 vmstat.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 43559 Aug 23 10:34 w.exe -rwxrwxr-x 1 ingber ingber 14375 Aug 23 10:34 watch.exe -- 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