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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:55:48 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: 1.3.14 Permission denied while doing a touch on MVFS
Message-ID: <20021101005548.GA389751@HPN5170X>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 03:22:18PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I just installed 1.3.14 and am now experiencing problems with permission 
> denied when doing a touch but only when working on Clearcase's MVFS file 
> system (i.e. a dynamic view). AFAICT I do have ntsec set and a proper 
> /etc/passwd file, etc. This all sounds like other permissions problems 
> that I've read about recently but the kicker is that in involves a 3rd 
> party file system from Rational, Clearcase's MVFS file system. Here's an 
> example:
> 
I am also using Clearcase at work and for as long as I can remember 
cp -p produced an error saying times can't be preserved.
The touch is failing in SetFileTime with error 5, indicating a Windows problem.
The mystery is why it fails now and on that machine.
Does it still fail if you set nontsec in CYGWIN?

Pierre



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