From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: bug in cp: Permission denied
6 Nov 1998 21:22:30 -0800
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To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>,
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'b' is a device under Win32??  Where in the FAQ does it say this???  What
the hell is 'b'?

I'm assuming that 'b' is not already a file in the directory where John was
trying this and that the proper permissions exist for that directory.  I
find the sequence John reports works fine for me with b19 + coolview on
NT SP4.

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At 05:51 PM 11/3/98 -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>
>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.
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>---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.
>> 
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