On Nov 27 18:23, John Smith wrote: > The archive contains repeated messages to the effect that Cygwin has > no concept of "hidden" files (except for dot-files), totally ignores > the "hidden" attribute, etc. > > However, while I can create, read, add to (using ">>") and delete > files with this attribute set, I cannot overwrite them. For example: > > jaipur:~$ echo xxx >foo > jaipur:~$ echo yyy >foo > jaipur:~$ attrib +h foo > jaipur:~$ echo zzz >foo > bash: foo: Permission denied > jaipur:~$ echo zzz >bar > jaipur:~$ cp bar foo > cp: cannot create regular file `foo': Permission denied > jaipur:~$ attrib -h foo > jaipur:~$ echo zzz >foo > jaipur:~$ cp bar foo > jaipur:~$ > > In case this is happening because of some local misconfiguration, I've > attached cygcheck output. > > If it is actually a genuine problem, is it something that can be > fixed? It's a nuisance having Cygwin's behaviour affected by something > it officially takes no notice of.
Thanks for the report. I found a tiny comment in MSDN which explains why this happens. I'll apply an appropriate patch to Cygwin. Thanks again, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
