From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: bug in cp: Permission denied
5 Nov 1998 05:57:51 -0800
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To: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com



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.


---John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com> wrote:
>
> 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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