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Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Subject: Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:54:32 -0400
- CC: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- References: <3B783E6E.2546DF0@ece.gatech.edu> <3B7954F7.2060209@ece.gatech.edu>
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Is it true that the problem can be restricted to files
> > which are actually owned by the current user???
>
> Not entirely. I've done some checking on SolarisX86, and given a file
> 'foo' owned by someone else and a group I do not belong to:
I forgot to say, foo is -r--r--r--.
>
> cp -p foo bar
>
> bar is now owned by me and my group, but has the same timestamp as foo.
>
> mv foo baz
>
> baz is still owned by the other user, other group. (I have write
> permissions on & ownership of the enclosing directory)
--Chuck