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 13:23:05 +1000 Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <20030415023356.GA48685509@hpn5170x> <3E9B752B.6080502@rfk.com> <3E9B78D3.9030303@rfk.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: <3E9B78D3.9030303@rfk.com> Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: > John Williams wrote: > >> I'm doing this on a fat32 partition... > OK, that's the problem then. I guess you didn't read the FAQ entry: > > Why doesn't chmod work? > > > chmod does nothing on FAT drives unless you're running some version > of NT and you're willing to incur the overhead of a large file in > your root (enabled by setting 'ntea' in your CYGWIN environment variable). I'm running XP, and would be happy to suffer whatever it takes to get this to work. The alternative is to hack genromfs, which I don't want to do because it makes yet another branch in the toolchain sources. 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/