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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:41:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Jane Doe <dont_know_at_all AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: strange cp behavior with (coreutils 5.2.1)
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--- Larry Hall
<lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:

> At 10:15 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote:
> >$ net use \\\\shiva /u:shiva\\administrator
> >$ cp //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h .
> >cp: cannot open `//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h.exe' for
> >reading: No such file or directory
> >$ net use \\\\shiva /d
> >$ net use \\\\shiva /u:develop\\dkaa
> >$ cp -v //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h .
> >`//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h' -> `./eqgame.h'
> >
> >I think this used to work when cp was part of
> >fileutils.  The file itself has owner
> (develop\dkaa)
> >read permissions but Everyone has no explicit
> >permissions.  Giving Everyone read permissions
> makes
> >it work.
> 
> 
> That doesn't sound strange to me at all.  If you
> don't have any access 
> to the file as the user of the share, I wouldn't
> expect to be able to 
> access the file.  

I don't really have a problem with the lack of access,
it's the fact that cp complains about the file with
.exe suffix.  Everyone has read&execute privileges for
the directory of the file so cp should know the file
is there and unreadable.

Thanks.


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