Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000324162258.00d4f690@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:27:24 -0500 To: John Wiersba , "cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com" From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: not updating unwritable cache ../config.cache In-Reply-To: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F122@aa-msg-01.medstat .com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:02 PM 3/24/00, John Wiersba wrote: >1) The following never works for me > [[ -w FILE ]] && echo ok >even if the file *is* writable by me. This is known. You won't get the test to work unless the permission you are checking is available "across the board". Corinna has made some changes to address this under NT/NTFS in later snapshots but that won't be any solution for 9x platforms AFAIK. You might want to check your umask setting and make sure it doesn't mask out write permissions for group and others... Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX (508) 560-1285 - cell phone -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com