X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4F47D8E6.6030608@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:37:26 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: recursive read-only folder copy issue References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 On 2/24/2012 11:03 AM, Yohann Martineau wrote: > hello, > > sorry if this question has already been asked one thousand times, if > it's the case, google, the faq and the mailing list search engine > missed it. > > If I create the following tree in windows explorer: > > dir1 > dir2 > file1 > file2 > > Right-click on dir1 in windows explorer, uncheck grayed read-only and > check-in read-only, apply on all subfolders and files. > > Open cygwin bash, type the following command line: > > cp -r dir1 dir1-1 > > In windows explorer, a new dir1-1 folder is created as expected, it is > possible to open this folder. > > Try to open file2 in windows explorer, error "access denied". It's the > same with dir2 folder, "folder not available, access denied". > > If I try to delete folder dir1-1 (using shift+del), file2 is removed > but I have an error "cannot remove folder dir2, this folder is not > empty. > > Sorry if this behavior is expected. > > I managed to delete this directory running chmod 755 -R dir1-1 in > cygwin shell. In this case, I can open folder dir1-1/dir2 and see that > file2 is still there. Then I can remove this dir1-1 folder from > windows explorer. > > For your information, I stumbled upon this problem copying a directory > from a clearcase dynamic view mounted as a network drive. I performed > a plain vanilla test with the detailed description below. You could try mounting the drive where you're seeing this behavior with the "noacl" flag if you want to mix and match Windows and Cygwin tools when you're working with files. See the Users Guide for more information about mount flags. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ 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