Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/28/13:54:14
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:43:41AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote:
> I have a network share set up on my
> OS/2 box using HPFS. On that share,
> I have directory: cygmanaged, and under that, I have
> a directory tmp2.
>
> So, I can mount this directory as:
>
> mount --system --binary -omanaged z:/cygmanaged/tmp2 /tmp2,
> and it looks like everything is fine.
>
> But, when I try to 'touch' any file/directory on that mount, I get this
> error: touch: setting times of `cygwin-equivs/': Permission denied
>
> However, I can vi/edit/rm/mv or do just about anything else that I
> want to the file. I just can't seem to do a touch on it.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into touch as to what it is doing that might
> be causing the permissions problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> I just tested this on the raw share (/cygdrive/z/foo) and it still fails. So,
> it is not a managed mount problem/issue, but something deeper.
I have observed a similar problem with a XP HOME mounting a remote
Win98 drive. I traced it to SetFileTime failing, i.e. a MS issue.
"strace touch xxx" will show you what happens.
Pierre
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