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ln and cp oddities
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: ln and cp oddities
- From: Kevin Hughes <kh at wg dot icl dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 09:07:58 +0100
- Organization: ICL
I have been "using" the win32 port for some time but not in anger - just
playing. I have now decided to do some real work and run into some
problems associated with file permissions.
I first tried to do
ln -s fileA fileB
where fileA exists and has only read permission. I got fileB as expected
BUT I also got a write pwermission for BOTH files. This is not the case
in real UNIX.
I tried to work around this by using copy - hence
cp -p fileA fileB
This causes an error - undefined option - although it appears to have
worked - the file has been copied and the dates etc. have been
preserved.
I also have some scripts which use options in their parameters and test
for them
if test "$2" = "-l"
this does not work and I get "invalid unary operator" or similar error.
Any suggestions much appreciated
Kevin
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