Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:08:17 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Ronald Fischer cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permissions get lost when moving files between drives. In-Reply-To: <200401151423.i0FENaQ19568@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Message-ID: References: <200401151423.i0FENaQ19568@mailgate5.cinetic.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ronald Fischer wrote: > I'm using cygwin bash on a Windows 2000 machine. When I perform the > following steps (c: is the local drive, h: is a network drive, which is > also my $HOME): > > cd c:/ > echo xxx >h:/tmp/x > mv h:/tmp/x y > > then a > > ls -l > > shows that c:/y has the permissions set to 000, though h:/tmp/x has them > correct as 644. > > Ronald Ronald, Please read (and follow) > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html At a guess, your C: drive is a FAT (or, worse yet, FAT32) drive. The cygcheck output mentioned at the above link will show whether this is the case. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/