X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A54D7A5.2090609@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:30:13 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cl.exe compiles libraries with blank permissions References: <24389503 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <24390348 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <24390348.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 icc97 wrote: > Further research shows that the issue is that the file is first created with > additional windows permissions i.e. doing ls -lrt on the file gives: > > ----------+ 1 myname Domain Users 14436 Jul 8 13:00 mylib.lib > > The '+' indicating additional permissions. > > The file is then copied to a separate directory and the additional > permissions are lost, so now doing an ls -lrt gives: > ---------- 1 myname Domain Users 14436 Jul 8 13:04 mylib.lib > > The '+' is gone. So does anyone know why the file permissions get removed > when the file is copied? I suspect you're using 'cp' which by default only respects POSIX permissions. Use the '--preserve=all' switch in this case. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple