Re: cp -p error when directory security is modified from Windows

[Bob Proulx]

Greg Aloe wrote:
> The strace commands seem to confirm what we already suspected.  If you
> look at the output differences, the call to chown was permitted *after*
> I mucked around on the Windows side.  This causes a subsequent
> "operation not permitted" error when chmod is called.

Then it does seem to be something deep down in the MS filesystem layer.

> Do you know of any other APIs I can use to probe the file attributes
> that allow/deny changing ownership?

Nope.

Since you now know this is related to something specific and deep down
in the MS system the best thing to do is to take this information to a
mailing list that works with MS systems.  I would suggest the cygwin
mailing list.

  http://cygwin.com
  http://cygwin.com/lists.html

Bob