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Re: bug in cp: Permission denied
- To: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: bug in cp: Permission denied
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 17:51:14 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
b is a device under Win32. The FAQ states that files named similar to
a MSDOS device will give you problems. Actually, I'm surprised that
you didn't get an error with a also.
---John Wiersba <John.Wiersba@medstat.com> wrote:
>
> What's up with this?
>
> touch a
> cp -p a b
> cp: b: Permission denied
>
> The copy actually works, and the timestamp is copied, but not the
> permissions.
>
> I'm running b19 with coolview on NT with everything binary-mounted.
>
> John Wiersba (john.wiersba@medstat.com)
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