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"Igor Peshansky" <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote in message 
news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 63 DOT 0712181355260 DOT 28181 AT access1 DOT cims DOT nyu DOT edu...

> Heh.  I just looked, and it seems you've never posted the output of
> "cygcheck -svr" on your system ...

Well, I didn't think I was reporting a problem except possibly with my own 
understanding...

> I bet ... the DOS "Read-only" bit on the directory is probably set.

Bingo!

Having changed that, I get:

> ls -ld /tmp
drwxr-xr-x 12 michael None 245760 Dec 18 14:26 /tmp

... and...

> if [ -w /tmp ]; then echo "Yes"; else echo "No"; fi
Yes 



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