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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 20:42:39 -0500
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From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: Nice work, cygwin-1.3.18
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At 07:21 PM 1/8/2003 -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>cygwin-1.3.17:
>
>-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None     93184 Aug 21  2001 /usr/bin/a2p.exe
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 cwilson  None       117 Jan  8 19:08 symlink -> 
>/usr/bin/a2p.exe
>-rwxrwxrwx+   1 cwilson  None     93184 Aug 21  2001 new
>
>No change.  The error message in both cases is "cp: preserving ownership 
>for `new': Permission denied"
>
>I'm curious as to why the automake self check now passes; I don't know 
>what other thing has changed on my system between early December and now.

OK, that looks like the bug I found (note the + on new). 
The bug is more obvious when owner has different permissions than g or o.

Patch later tonight.

Chuck,

If you offer virtual beer for a virtual fix, what do you offer for a 
real fix?

Pierre