Subject: RE: bug in cp: Permission denied
From: [email-masked] (Colman Curtin)

7 Nov 1998 09:37:49 -0800
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To: John Wiersba <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[email-masked]]
>Sent: 04 November 1998 01:51
>To: John Wiersba; [email-masked]
>Subject: Re: bug in cp: Permission denied
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>b is a device under Win32.  The FAQ states that files named similar to
>a MSDOS device will give you problems.  Actually, I'm surprised that
>you didn't get an error with a also.
uh? a or b are not Dos devices.
does b exist already?
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>---John Wiersba <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> 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 ([email-masked])
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