From: John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com (John Wiersba) Subject: RE: bug in cp: Permission denied 7 Nov 1998 12:30:09 -0800 Message-ID: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9993C694.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.medstat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'Colman Curtin'" , "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" >> What's up with this? >> >> touch a >> cp -p a b >> cp: b: Permission denied > > h? a or b are not Dos devices. > does b exist already? No. a and b were meant to be generic file names. I have tested this several times in different (empty) directories in different file systems. In all cases, I get the same behavior, i.e. the file contents and timestamp are copied correctly but the file access mode is not. Here is a copy of a post I made yesterday to gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com which didn't seem to make it into the mailing list (why not??): > Can anyone reproduce this on a WinNT4 machine under b19 (or maybe under b20)? > > $ touch 10101010 asdf > $ chmod 444 asdf > $ cp asdf fdsa1 > $ cp -p asdf fdsa2 > cp: fdsa2: Permission denied > $ ls -l > total 0 > -r--r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Oct 10 10:10 asdf > -r--r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Nov 4 09:57 fdsa1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Oct 10 10:10 fdsa2 > > Note that the -p option correctly copies the timestamp, but that the file access mode is NOT > copied (I assume that's why there's an error message). > > Why can't the file access mode be copied? > > I'm running b19 with coolview under WinNT, I don't know which service pack, but the System > Properties shows 4.00.1381. John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".