Re: cp: utimes: bar: Permission denied

[Johannes Hofmann <johannes.hofmann@xxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon <dillon@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