Re: touch failing on network share

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:43:41AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote:
>
> > I have a network share set up on my OS/2 box using HPFS. On that 
> > share, I have directory: cygmanaged, and under that, I have
> > a directory tmp2.
> >
> > So, I can mount this directory as:
> >
> > mount --system --binary -omanaged z:/cygmanaged/tmp2 /tmp2, and it 
> > looks like everything is fine.
> >
> > But, when I try to 'touch' any file/directory on that mount, I get 
> > this error: touch: setting times of `cygwin-equivs/': Permission denied
> >
> > However, I can vi/edit/rm/mv or do just about anything else that I 
> > want to the file. I just can't seem to do a touch on it.
> >
> > Does anyone have any insight into touch as to what it is doing that 
> > might be causing the permissions problem?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I just tested this on the raw share (/cygdrive/z/foo) and it still 
> > fails. So, it is not a managed mount problem/issue, but something deeper.
>
> I have observed a similar problem with a XP HOME mounting a remote 
> Win98 drive. I traced it to SetFileTime failing, i.e. a MS issue.
> "strace touch xxx" will show you what happens.
>
> Pierre

This is interesting and sounds very familiar to a problem I had with 
using Rational Clearcase. I would mount a snapshot view using Cygwin (I 
forget its behavior on dynamic views) and touch would likewise fail WRT 
setting times.

Seems to me that it's a file system issue as you were using an HPFS from 
OS/2. Interestingly Clearcase uses a different file system to. I wonder, 
that Win 98 drive is also a different file system (FAT). Could it be 
that SetFileTime only works with NTFS? Is there another Windows call to 
SetFileTime(s) on FAT and otherwise foreign file systems like HPFS 
and/or vendor supplied file systems such as Clearcase's?
--
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