From:	lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject:	RE: bug in cp: Permission denied
7 Nov 1998 13:19:38 -0800 :
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To:	John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>,
	"'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

I get this with NT 4+SP4 and b19:

HOME_lhall->touch 10101010 asdf
HOME_lhall->chmod 444 asdf
HOME_lhall->cp asdf fdsa1
HOME_lhall->cp -p asdf fdsa2
HOME_lhall->ls -lrt
total 0
-r--r--r--   1 544      None            0 Oct 10 10:10 asdf
-r--r--r--   1 lhall    None            0 Oct 10 10:10 fdsa2
-r--r--r--   1 544      None            0 Nov  5 15:46 fdsa1
HOME_lhall->

The only difference is touch seems to use the "default" group I'm in
(Administrators) rather than my user id like yours does.  This seems
to point to a permissions problem (although I'm not sure I understand
the behavior of touch either).

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At 11:11 AM 11/4/98 -0500, John Wiersba wrote:
>Can anyone reproduce this on a WinNT4 machine under b19 (or maybe under
>b20)?
>
>$ touch 10101010 asdf
>$ chmod 444 asdf
>$ cp asdf fdsa1
>$ cp -p asdf fdsa2
>cp: fdsa2: Permission denied
>$ ls -l
>total 0
>-r--r--r--   1 jrw      jrwg            0 Oct 10 10:10 asdf
>-r--r--r--   1 jrw      jrwg            0 Nov  4 09:57 fdsa1
>-rw-r--r--   1 jrw      jrwg            0 Oct 10 10:10 fdsa2
>
>Note that the -p option correctly copies the timestamp, but that the
>file access mode is NOT
>copied (I assume that's why there's an error message).  
>
>Why can't the file access mode be copied?
>
>I'm running b19 with coolview under WinNT, I don't know which service
>pack, but the System Properties shows 4.00.1381.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Wiersba [mailto:John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com]
>Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 11:25 AM
>To: 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'
>Subject: bug in cp: Permission denied
>
>
>What's up with this?
>
>touch a
>cp -p a b
>cp: b: Permission denied
>
>The copy actually works, and the timestamp is copied, but not the
>permissions. 
>
>I'm running b19 with coolview on NT with everything binary-mounted.
>
>John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com)
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