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-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: John Williams Subject: Re: chmod again Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:19:22 +1000 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20030415023356.GA48685509@hpn5170x> <3E9B752B.6080502@rfk.com> <20030415031435.GC8800@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030415031435.GC8800@redhat.com> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I'm doing this on a fat32 partition... > > That explains it. Try setting CYGWIN=ntea before changing permissions. OK done. Well it does something different now, but still doesn't work: jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init $ export CYGWIN=ntea jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init $ ls -alrt init -rw-r--r-- 1 jwilliam Domain U 27984 Apr 15 11:45 init jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init $ chmod 777 init chmod: changing permissions of `init': Bad file descriptor jwilliams@G435-9029 /cygdrive/d/uClinux-dist/user/init $ ls -alrt init -rw-r--r-- 1 jwilliam Domain U 27984 Apr 15 11:45 init John -- 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/