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From:	"Kevin Woolie" <kwoolie AT techlinkentertainment DOT com>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	chmod consistently reports invalid arguments
Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:49:05 -0300
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I have a full install (done via the setup installer) of cygwin, done
yesterday (October 24, 2002), on my Win2k machine at work.  I have
installed, additionally, the KDE 2 and Windowmaker packages.

Whenever I, or any program/script for that matter, try executing a chmod
command (chown I believe as well), it complains about invalid arguments -
programs are dying trying to make various ~/.* directories and files because
of this, as well as /tmp/* that the program expects to be able to make as a
given UID.

All my drives are mounted in binmode.

How do I correct this?

dcopserver fails it's self test too, but that's another list...

I am working with NTFS partitions - cygwin lives on my f: drive.
Additionally, I've got administrator access to my box.

Kevin Woolie
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