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Re: Nice work, cygwin-1.3.18
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- Cc: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:36:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: Nice work, cygwin-1.3.18
- References: <3E190064.3040508@ece.gatech.edu>
Charles Wilson wrote:
>
> In automake-devel, there has been a long-standing test failure
> ('subobj9'). It now passes, and I think it's because of Corinna and
> Pierre's work with permissions in 1.3.18.
>
> A case of virtual beer each!
Thanks for the beer, Chuck.
Unfortunately it's premature. As I didn't recognize any change that
would explain what you saw, I looked into it.
chown causes undesirable side effects when it fails, which affect cp -p.
I will fix them, but would like to be sure I also fix your problem.
If I understand correctly you have a symlink ==> old
and you do "cp -p symlink new".
Could you sketch typical ls -l outputs for "old" and "new", both
before the virtual fix and after?
Pierre