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Subject: Re: Problems with file permissions and cp when running on Vista
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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> I'd start at the source.  Give yourself POSIX-style access to the files
> to start with.  'cp' will preserve that access.  'cp' and many other
> utilities don't take ACL permissions into account.  They are silently
> ignored.  For whatever reason, it looks like your source file has no
> POSIX permissions for user, group, and other.  Fix that with 'chmod'
> and I think you'll have solved your problem.
>
I suppose that I'm suprised and disappointed that I can't just use cp to 
copy arbitrary files around without first having to lay groundwork in 
order for things to work properly.
We use cygwin cp as part of our build process and it complicates matters 
if can't just check a source tree out and have cp work properly on the 
result.

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