Re: cp incorrectly generating "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link errors"

[Bob Proulx]

Robert Schultheis wrote:
> I have discovered a bug in cp (fileutils) 4.1, and I am wondering if it 
> has been fixed in later versions so I can notify our admins to upgrade 
> our core-utils which is something I can not do myself , however I will 
> need a dang good reason for them to do it.
>
> I am running on Win2000 with SP4 which is likely a contributing factor.

Thank you for your nice bug report.  But I cannot recreate the problem
with a recent coreutils.  Because you are running MS-Win2k I suspect
there were bugs in the ported version that you are running.  There are
a lot of things that need to be mapped to make a MS system behave.  It
is a very difficult problem.  Since we generally use GNU systems we
can't help very much.

You did not say if you were using a Cygwin version of coreutils.  But
regardless I suggest you contact the Cygwin folks.  They are the
experts with the MS systems.

  http://cygwin.com/

Hope that helps,
Bob