Permissions get lost when moving files between drives.

Thu Jan 15 17:09:00 GMT 2004

On 2004年1月15日, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> I'm using cygwin bash on a Windows 2000 machine. When I perform the
> following steps (c: is the local drive, h: is a network drive, which is
> also my $HOME):
>> cd c:/
> echo xxx >h:/tmp/x
> mv h:/tmp/x y
>> then a
>> ls -l
>> shows that c:/y has the permissions set to 000, though h:/tmp/x has them
> correct as 644.
>> Ronald

Ronald,
Please read (and follow)
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

At a guess, your C: drive is a FAT (or, worse yet, FAT32) drive. The
cygcheck output mentioned at the above link will show whether this is the
case.
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