Bug #1327
closed
cp: utimes: bar: Permission denied
Added by Johannes.Hofmann over 16 years ago.
Updated over 16 years ago.
Description
Hi,
with recent head the following does not work:
touch foo
chmod 444 foo
cp -p foo bar
I get
cp: utimes: bar: Permission denied
Something similar seems to happen during "make dist" in an
autoconf/automake project.
Cheers,
Johannes
PS: Sorry for my lousy attempts on irc....
:Hi,
:
:with recent head the following does not work:
:
:touch foo
:chmod 444 foo
:cp -p foo bar
:
:I get
:cp: utimes: bar: Permission denied
:
:Something similar seems to happen during "make dist" in an
:autoconf/automake project.
:
:Cheers,
:Johannes
Hmm. Well, the utimes manual page implies that utimes should
succeed if you own the file, even if you do not have write access.
I'll have to augment our access checks slightly to fix this.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
Fixed with ee89633d5330733056052c06919a5dd4c01347bc
Thanks a lot,
Johannes
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