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Re: Automake 1.4l released
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>, <cygwin at Cygwin dot Com>
- Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released
- From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim dot van dot holder at pandora dot be>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:30:26 +0200
- Cc: <automake at gnu dot org>,"Bernard Dautrevaux" <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>
> Oh yeah -- and it cygwin's cp complains when it isn't possible to
> preserve attributes. linux's cp doesn't. Or at least that's the way it
> appears.
Just for the record - it DOES complain when appropriate (e.g. when copying
a file from e2fs to vfat/fat (and maybe ntfs too, but I have no ntfs mounts
in my Linux system).
> > It actually doesn't work very well on non-NTFS filesystems. That's
> > known. We use what Microsoft provides us and we don't have much
> > to work with on anything besides NTFS.
That's odd though - regular DOS calls (both the standard and LFN APIs)
that set a files timestamp work just fine on read-only files (looking
in the source for utime on DJGPP, there is no code to chmod +w/-w).
Strange that the Windows APIs work differently.
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