Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Dave Korn" To: , "'Ronald Fischer'" Subject: RE: Permissions get lost when moving files between drives. Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:17:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2004 17:17:21.0875 (UTC) FILETIME=[6FC6EA30:01C3DB8B] Note-from-DJ: This may be spam > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > 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 > 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 Nope, it's more complicated than that. Here on my system I've got cygwin root installed on an NTFS partition (under XP), and /win/t is a mountpoint for the dos path T:\ which is a samba share from a linux box.... Now watch: ---snip--- dk AT mace /> echo helloworld >testfile dk AT mace /> ls -la testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain U 11 Jan 15 17:12 testfile dk AT mace /> echo helloworld >/win/t/testfile2 dk AT mace /> ls -la /win/t/testfile2 -rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain U 11 Jan 15 2004 /win/t/testfile2 dk AT mace /> cp /win/t/testfile2 ./testfile2a dk AT mace /> mv /win/t/testfile2 ./testfile2b dk AT mace /> ls -la testfile* -rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain U 11 Jan 15 17:12 testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 dk Domain U 11 Jan 15 17:12 testfile2a -rwx------+ 1 dk Domain U 11 Jan 15 2004 testfile2b dk AT mace /> ---snip--- So, I observe that: A) it's not to do with OP's use of dos paths with drive letters and colons B) it's not to do with FAT-vs-NTFS C) it's not always 000 that the perms get set to, for me it's 700 D) it happens with cp but not with mv E) something funny seems to occur with the c/m/a timestamps as well. Of those three, D) should give a big clue if anyone's familiar with the different internals of those two commands... cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/