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Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 20:36:12 +0200
- References: <3B783E6E.2546DF0@ece.gatech.edu> <3B7954F7.2060209@ece.gatech.edu>
- Reply-To: cygdev <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:42:31PM -0400, 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:
>
> cp -p foo bar
>
> bar is now owned by me and my group, but has the same timestamp as foo.
Since `bar' is the concerned file it's a file which is owned
by the current user...
> mv foo baz
>
> baz is still owned by the other user, other group. (I have write
> permissions on & ownership of the enclosing directory)
That's unrelated since for some reason the name of the file
is _real_ metadata while the timestamps... you know...
Corinna
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