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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:08:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Ronald Fischer <fischron DOT external AT infineon DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Permissions get lost when moving files between drives.
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Ronald Fischer wrote:

> I'm using cygwin bash on a Windows 2000 machine. When I perform the
> following steps (c: is the local drive, h: is a network drive, which is
> also my $HOME):
>
> cd c:/
> echo xxx >h:/tmp/x
> mv h:/tmp/x y
>
> then a
>
>   ls -l
>
> shows that c:/y has the permissions set to 000, though h:/tmp/x has them
> correct as 644.
>
> Ronald

Ronald,

Please read (and follow)
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

At a guess, your C: drive is a FAT (or, worse yet, FAT32) drive.  The
cygcheck output mentioned at the above link will show whether this is the
case.
	Igor
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