Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 15:16:11 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Cannot set time on read-only file (Win2k) Message-ID: <20010504151611.D24200@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Corinna Vinschen , Cygwin Mailing List References: <000b01c0d498$07378350$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000b01c0d498$07378350$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:44:58PM +0400 On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:44:58PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > I noticed this problem when mirroring off Unix site - if file is read-only, > time cannot be set. This of course confuses mirror a bit (why I had to mirror > under Cygwin is another sad story :-) > > mw1g017@MW1G17C% ll ld-linux.so.2 > -r-xr-xr-x 1 mw1g017 ITS 87036 Apr 18 10:19 ld-linux.so.2* > mw1g017@MW1G17C% touch ld-linux.so.2 > touch: ld-linux.so.2: Permission denied > mw1g017@MW1G17C% chmod u+w ld-linux.so.2 > mw1g017@MW1G17C% touch ld-linux.so.2 > > This is somewhat unexpected and does not correspond to Unix. Is it possible to > change it or is it Windows restriction? It's a Windows restriction. Setting the file time requires opening the file for writing. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple