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Re: Nice work, cygwin-1.3.18
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 20:42:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: Nice work, cygwin-1.3.18
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