Re: Filenames with hyphens & cp/chown
From: M Khomo (mkhomo_at_ostecs.com)
Date: 05/04/04
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Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 14:15:01 -0500
Uwe Dippel wrote:
> On Mon, 03 May 2004 18:59:39 -0500, M Khomo wrote:
>
>
>>Apparently 'cp -p' invokes 'chown'. When the file list to 'cp -p' has a
>>file with embedded hyphens in its name, 'chown' complains: 'cp: chown:
>>./Figs 1-3.pdf: Invalid argument'.
>
>
> Sorry, a bit stupid, I'm not clear what you want to do.
> Here I didn't get further than
>
> # ls -l 1-3.pdf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 udippel udippel 24 May 4 22:15 1-3.pdf
> # cp -p 1-3.pdf /home/wira/
> # ls -l /home/wira/
> total 199820
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wira wira 768 Nov 6 19:07 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wira wira 317 Nov 6 19:07 .login
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wira wira 11 Jan 4 11:02 .mailboxlist
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wira wira 105 Nov 6 19:07 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 wira wira 199 Nov 6 19:07 .profile
> -rw------- 1 wira wira 126 Nov 6 19:07 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 udippel udippel 24 May 4 22:15 1-3.pdf
> -rw------- 1 wira wira 5601 Mar 11 18:14 Sent
Hmmm,
Maybe the embedded space also is involved. Perhaps it was a genuine
permissions problem and the hyphen was circumstantial/coincidental. I
was copying a PC file with embedded spaces and hyphens from an ffs
partition to an msdos partition. Its name was actually 'Figs 1-3.pdf'.
Perhaps the destination mount had genuine permission problems I'll check
and report back. Again, I was on obsd3.4.
OK Here goes:
I can replicate what you demonstrate:
> prompt> cp -p *.pdf /tmp
> prompt> ls /tmp/*.pdf
> Figs 1-5.pdf
> tmprules-1.dat
> prompt> rm /tmp/*.pdf
> prompt> su
> Password:
> host# ls *.pdf
> Figs 1-5.pdf
> host# chgrp wheel *.pdf
> host# exit
> host# exit
> prompt> cp -p *.pdf /tmp
> prompt> ls -l /tmp/*.pdf
> total 144
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mkhomo wheel 70815 May 3 18:34 Figs 1-5.pdf
> prompt> rm /tmp/*.pdf
NB: slightly different issue is why the file took up 'wheel' group to
which mkhomo is member. It was created by a mozilla download.
Then I can replicate what I reported:
> prompt> su
> Password:
> host# mount
> /dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)
> /dev/wd0g on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)
> /dev/wd0e on /usr type ffs (local, nodev)
> /dev/wd0f on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev)
> /dev/wd0d on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid)
> host# mount /dev/wd0k /mnt
> host# ls /mnt/tmp
> ls: /mnt/tmp: No such file or directory
> host# mkdir /mnt/tmp
> host# cp -p *.pdf /mnt/tmp
> cp: chown: /mnt/tmp/Figs 1-5.pdf: Invalid argument
> host# ls /mnt/tmp
> Figs 1-5.pdf
> host# ls -l /mnt/tmp
> total 72
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 70815 May 4 13:46 Figs 1-5.pdf
> host#
As before, the copy does happen, but 'chown' (2), almost seems to be
parsing the file name like multiple args with optargs. Could be a
semantically misleading error message since your scenario indicates
chown(2) does handle the filename and permission preservation properly.
Whatever permission problems in the transformation from unix perms to
msdos perms should have triggered an error.
NB2: The msdos mount gives the mounted fs root/wheel, maybe the nearest
thing to the NT Administrator permissions??
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