Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:41:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: tprinceusa cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: patch "can't set permissions on file ..... Invalid argument" In-Reply-To: <001801c279d5$fdd45060$54252a42@amr.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, tprinceusa wrote: > > Patch has "just worked" for years, until now. No doubt one of the > > recent changes in defaults requires a change in some setting, and I > > should have figured it out from earlier messages. > > I see that patch requires 'export CYGWIN=nontsec' Tim, patch doesn't require nontsec - it's been working happily for me with ntsec on for months now. It does require that the files you're trying to patch are writeable by you (like any other program that tries to modify files). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/