From: curt@...
Date: 2004-03-16T20:59:01+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I copy a read-only file?

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:04:34 +0900, "daz" wrote:

> 
> 
> > Curt Hibbs wrote:
> > > I've got a generic method that copies files. I
want
> to preserve the
> > > attributes of the source file in the destination
> file. I started using this:
> > >
> > >    require "ftools"
> > >    ...
> > >    File.copy(src_file, dest_dir)
> > >
> > > This works until I encounter a read-only file,
then
> I get an exception:
> > >
> > >    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/ftools.rb:23:in
> `initialize':
> > >    Permission denied -
> E:\Dev\RubyDev\rubyinstaller\c
> > >   
> vs-repo\installer\stable/doc\DBD/ODBC-0.96/COPYING
> > >    (Errno::EACCES)
> >
> 
> Perhaps you've repeated the copy and you already have
a
> read-only
> version in your dest directory which ftools is trying
> to *write* to ??

Duh! That was it... This was being used in a makefile,
and it never occurred to me that this happenned after
the second time that I ran the makefile!

Thanks,
Curt