Re: File permissions problems with cp in Windows 7

2012-02-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/16/2012 5:50 AM, Tom Quarendon wrote: I am a member of the local administrators. It actually sounds like noacl is what we would want here. We are just using Cygwin shell as a basis for our build environment for ease of portability, but we're using Visual Studio etc, not building Cygwin execu

Re: File permissions problems with cp in Windows 7

2012-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/15/2012 12:09 PM, Tom Quarendon wrote: I'm hoping you can help me understand a problem that's been plaguing me for some time. I'm on a recent version of Cygwin (cygcheck -V reports 1.7.9) and I'm on Windows 7. I believe I have set up my /etc/passwd and /etc/group using mkpasswd and mkgroup i

File permissions problems with cp in Windows 7

2012-02-15 Thread Tom Quarendon
I'm hoping you can help me understand a problem that's been plaguing me for some time. I'm on a recent version of Cygwin (cygcheck -V reports 1.7.9) and I'm on Windows 7. I believe I have set up my /etc/passwd and /etc/group using mkpasswd and mkgroup in the appropriate way. If it makes a differ