From: John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com (John Wiersba) Subject: RE: bug in cp: Permission denied 7 Nov 1998 13:31:50 -0800 Message-ID: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9993C696.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.medstat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'Larry Hall'" , "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" Now, I'm even more confused about cp.exe (see output below). Can anyone explain what's going on? Second question: how do I tell what service pack I'm using? The System Properties shows 4.00.1381 and uname -a shows "CYGWIN32_NT machinename 4.0 19.3 i686 unknown" /usr/junk> umask 002 /usr/junk> ls -l total 0 /usr/junk> touch 10101010 a1 a2 /usr/junk> chmod 444 a2 /usr/junk> /bin/cp a1 b1 /usr/junk> /bin/cp a2 b2 /usr/junk> /bin/cp -p a1 c1 /bin/cp: c1: Permission denied <== can't set file access mode? /usr/junk> /bin/cp -p a2 c2 /bin/cp: c2: Permission denied <== can't set file access mode? /usr/junk> ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Oct 10 10:10 a1 -r--r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Oct 10 10:10 a2 -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Nov 5 16:05 b1 <== ok -r--r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Nov 5 16:05 b2 <== shouldn't this be 644 mode? -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Oct 10 10:10 c1 <== this is ok, so why the complaint? -rw-r--r-- 1 jrw jrwg 0 Oct 10 10:10 c2 <== this should be 444 mode! John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com) -----Original Message----- From: Larry Hall [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com] Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 3:51 PM To: John Wiersba; 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com' Subject: RE: bug in cp: Permission denied I get this with NT 4+SP4 and b19: HOME_lhall->touch 10101010 asdf HOME_lhall->chmod 444 asdf HOME_lhall->cp asdf fdsa1 HOME_lhall->cp -p asdf fdsa2 HOME_lhall->ls -lrt total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 544 None 0 Oct 10 10:10 asdf -r--r--r-- 1 lhall None 0 Oct 10 10:10 fdsa2 -r--r--r-- 1 544 None 0 Nov 5 15:46 fdsa1 HOME_lhall-> The only difference is touch seems to use the "default" group I'm in (Administrators) rather than my user id like yours does. This seems to point to a permissions problem (although I'm not sure I understand the behavior of touch either). Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053 8 Grove Street (781) 239-1655 - FAX Wellesley, MA 02482-7797 http://www.rfk.com At 11:11 AM 11/4/98 -0500, John Wiersba wrote: >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. > >-----Original Message----- >From: John Wiersba [mailto:John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com] >Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 11:25 AM >To: 'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com' >Subject: bug in cp: Permission denied > > >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) >- >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". >- >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". > > - 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".