Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Reply-To: From: "Andrew J. P. Maclean" To: "'Sundstrom, Peter'" , Subject: RE: 1.3.5 cp/permissions bug Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:07:28 +1100 Organization: ACFR Message-ID: <004e01c172d8$e8cd36f0$84d24e81@acfr.usyd.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3311 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <7867A43ABE52194C9F2C6E5C15E9C2FA2FC148@backoff.isecure.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id fALMc1v06160 I think this article in the FAQ will help. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC44 and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html I hope that this helps. Andrew ___________________________________________ Andrew J. P. Maclean Postal: Australian Centre for Field Robotics The Rose Street Building J04 The University of Sydney  2006  NSW AUSTRALIA Room: 106 Phone: +61 2 9351 3283 Fax: +61 2 9351 7474 http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/ ___________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Sundstrom, Peter [mailto:Peter@isecure.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2001 13:41 To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: 1.3.5 cp/permissions bug I'm running 1.3.5 on Win2K The cp command doesn't seem to understand permissions correctly. See following example: Administrator@SCANNER$ cd /tmp Administrator@SCANNER$ touch foo Administrator@SCANNER$ chmod 000 foo Administrator@SCANNER$ ls -l total 0 ---------- 1 Administ None 0 Nov 21 13:34 foo Administrator@SCANNER$ cp foo foo1 cp: `foo.exe' and `foo1' are the same file Doing the same on a Solaris box gets the error: cp: can not open foo: Permission denied -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/