cp: utimes: bar: Permission denied
Johannes Hofmann
johannes.hofmann at gmx.de
Thu Apr 2 00:42:33 PDT 2009
Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :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.
Fixed with ee89633d5330733056052c06919a5dd4c01347bc
Thanks a lot,
Johannes
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