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-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVZ87QuNJ+0sMLfTvfOtDlBWcMnIwvFfTb+QeN49iOPLYhE/SJnl4Kp8 Message-ID: <3E9B8223.6030400@rfk.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:53:07 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" Reply-To: lhall@rfk.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lhall@rfk.com CC: John Williams , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod again References: <20030415023356.GA48685509@hpn5170x> <3E9B752B.6080502@rfk.com> <20030415031435.GC8800@redhat.com> <3E9B7BCD.6030204@rfk.com> <3E9B80DB.5000802@rfk.com> In-Reply-To: <3E9B80DB.5000802@rfk.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: > John Williams wrote: > >> Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: >> >>> Ah, this won't work. You can't be running *any* Cygwin process when >>> setting this value. >> >> >> >> OK I killed all cygwin processes, set the env variable via the control >> panel, and restarted the cygwin shell - same result. >> >> Anything else I should try? > > > Well, a few but I can't guarantee anything. Type in the following and > send the output here: > > which chmod > cygcheck chmod > > I tried 'ntea' here on 1.3.22 and it works fine for me on FAT (see below). > You can try replicating this yourself and see if it provides any insight > as to what's different there (beyond XP vs W2K - which is what I'm > running here). /Floppy is just a mount point to a:. That's the only > FAT partition I have that I was willing to sacrifice for this test. ;-) > > D:\WINNT\SYSTEM32>set CYGWIN=ntea > > D:\WINNT\SYSTEM32>d:\bin\bash.exe --login > lhall@lhall->cd /floppy > /floppy > lhall@lhall->ls > ls: EA DATA. SF: No such file or directory > DEBUG.LOG* DLGDIAG.LOG DLGSW1.EXE* Dlgdiag.txt msdevdde.reg > DLG1.LNK DLGDIAG.PRE DLGSW2.EXE* Dlgli1.exe* setConsole.reg > DLGCHBW.EXE* DLGLICE.TXT Dlgdiag.exe* IomDisk.sys* > lhall@enterprise-e->ls -l > ls: EA DATA. SF: No such file or directory > total 334 > -rwxrwxrwx 1 lhall None 8764 Apr 14 23:36 DEBUG.LOG* Oops! It's a little late so I'm not as careful with trimming my output as I should be. Ignore the first "ls" above. The only file of interest in this directory is the one I'm changing, DEBUG.LOG. I've trimmed the rest of the filesout of all the subsequent "ls -l" invocations. Sorry if this causes any confusion. -- Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/