Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Hi Martin, in the light of what has been discussed... could you please replicate the bug and report upstream? thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Chad Miller wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:41:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > BUT gmc (and most possibly mc) will not be > > able to rename stuff, though you can move > > files ;) It's a bug for certain! > > Whoa. I don't understand that; what's the difference between moving and

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:05:50AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > > Martin. Yes. I tried. Do you think I'm a newbie or something? Why > > do you think the file is owned by root? It's on windows partition... > > Hold on ... this is an msdos partition mounted? If so,

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:05:50AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Martin. Yes. I tried. Do you think I'm a newbie or something? Why > do you think the file is owned by root? It's on windows partition... Hold on ... this is an msdos partition mounted? If so, check out man 8 mount; specificall

(a small correction) Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

"Eray Ozkural (exa)" wrote: > > Try to reproduce what I do there. The permissions on parent > are irrelevant. That's a vfat filesystem. Permissions are > same everywhere anyway if you wonder. Sorry sorry sorry sorry. Permissions on parent of course do matter as you express. However, in this case

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Jason Henry Parker wrote: > At a guess, I would say this is a non-bug. I'm saying that I can't rename a file using gmc which I *can* otherwise rename. So your first guess in not very accurate. You know how to rename something in gmc, yes? You do that in the properties of a file, by editing the na

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

"Eray Ozkural (exa)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Check it out for yourself: > > orion:Stuff$ ls -ald desktop.* > -rwxrwxr-x1 root windows 125 Nov 20 1998 desktop.ini > orion:Stuff$ mv desktop.ini desktop.what! > orion:Stuff$ ls -ald desktop.* > -rwxrwxr-x1 root windows

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Hi Martin, cross-posting to debian-devel because your assessment of the bug is totally wrong. Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Hi, > > > I can rename a directory to which I have permissions in shell > > > orion:mp3$ ls -ald Rob\ Zombie/ > > drwxrwxr-x2 root windows 16384 May 21 2000