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Re: Cannot set time on read-only file (Win2k)
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- Subject: Re: Cannot set time on read-only file (Win2k)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 15:16:11 +0200
- References: <000b01c0d498$07378350$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:44:58PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> I noticed this problem when mirroring off Unix site - if file is read-only,
> time cannot be set. This of course confuses mirror a bit (why I had to mirror
> under Cygwin is another sad story :-)
>
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% ll ld-linux.so.2
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 mw1g017 ITS 87036 Apr 18 10:19 ld-linux.so.2*
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% touch ld-linux.so.2
> touch: ld-linux.so.2: Permission denied
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% chmod u+w ld-linux.so.2
> mw1g017@MW1G17C% touch ld-linux.so.2
>
> This is somewhat unexpected and does not correspond to Unix. Is it possible to
> change it or is it Windows restriction?
It's a Windows restriction. Setting the file time requires opening
the file for writing.
Corinna
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