On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:06:21AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The current cygwin-1.5.9 and snapshots up to 20040406 have exhibited an
> intermittent problem with cat: the error msg "input file is output file" has
> been presented during a long sequence
>
> cat f.1 f.2 f.3 ... f.n > f.target
>
> when there is no coincidence of names. This was reported earlier at
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01211.html (also with 1.5.9).
>
> The problem seems to depend in some subtly inexpressible way (otherwise I
> would have sent a test case) on the contents of f.1 .. f.n and the name of
> f.target.
>
> Well, at least with the examples I have tried (many) this problem is cured
> with snapshot 20040409.
>
> And with 20040411.
>
> Thank you.
Thanks Fergus, for letting me know I wasn't the only one seeing this.
What still puzzles me is that when I rebuilt cat from scratch I was unable to
reproduce this problem.
Cheers,
Jos
> Fergus
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