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Re: cp uses NT5 permissions on NT4
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: cp uses NT5 permissions on NT4
- From: Joachim Achtzehnter <joachima at realtimeint dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:20:39 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>
> At 05:55 PM 12/6/2000, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote:
> >
> > The only convenient solution for now, is to revert to CYGWIN-b20 which
> > works as I would have expected.
>
> Actually, there's quite a few options besides reverting to an
> unsupported version... Obviously, you're the only one who can decide
> if these options are convenient for you.
Exactly. Using CYGWIN-b20 is 'convenient' for me because this is what our
company still uses as the company-standard release of CYGWIN. It is easily
accessible on the network, hence 'convenient' for me. I had taken the
initiative of trying out the latest release.
> They include:
>
> - changing the permissions of the files using chmod.
This may be a manual workaround (although I haven't actually verified that
it works) similar to my other workaround using the security tab, but not
nearly as convenient as using a 'cp' command that works correctly... :)
> - turning off ntsec
Don't know what the implications are and I'm not keen on discussing this
with company management.
> - trying to debug the problem
This is certainly an option, but I don't have the time to do this on my
own at this point. Note, I'm not demanding that somebody else do this for
me either. I do understand the free software model. Simply reporting the
bug is not nearly as useful as fixing it, but it is of some use...
Thanks for replying.
Joachim
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