Re: Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 12 16:24, David Arnstein wrote: I have a bash shell script that I run every night using Windows task scheduler. The purpose of this script is to take an inventory of my PC, and to make copies of a few important files. The script calls ls, find, cp, and a few other ordinary Linux/Unix

Re: Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/16/2006 7:14 AM: Please be aware that one problem remains. The Windows function SetCurrentDirectory, which is the base function used by chdir(2), apparently tries to open the directory in which to change

Re: Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 16 07:21, Eric Blake wrote: According to Corinna Vinschen on 10/16/2006 7:14 AM: for instance, find(1) traverses directory trees by chdir'ing into directories before listing them. So even with this patch, find(1) is still not a good candidate for backing up directory trees in a

Permission to read anything from ls, cp, and find?

2006-10-12 Thread David Arnstein
I have a bash shell script that I run every night using Windows task scheduler. The purpose of this script is to take an inventory of my PC, and to make copies of a few important files. The script calls ls, find, cp, and a few other ordinary Linux/Unix utilities. My problem is that the script