Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:36:12 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata Message-ID: <20010814203612.D26353@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygdev Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com References: <3B783E6E DOT 2546DF0 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <3B7954F7 DOT 2060209 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B7954F7.2060209@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:42:31PM -0400 On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:42:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Is it true that the problem can be restricted to files > > which are actually owned by the current user??? > > Not entirely. I've done some checking on SolarisX86, and given a file > 'foo' owned by someone else and a group I do not belong to: > > cp -p foo bar > > bar is now owned by me and my group, but has the same timestamp as foo. Since `bar' is the concerned file it's a file which is owned by the current user... > mv foo baz > > baz is still owned by the other user, other group. (I have write > permissions on & ownership of the enclosing directory) That's unrelated since for some reason the name of the file is _real_ metadata while the timestamps... you know... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.