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 14:11:20 +1000 Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3E9B8668.8060307@itee.uq.edu.au> References: <20030415023356.GA48685509@hpn5170x> <3E9B752B.6080502@rfk.com> <20030415031435.GC8800@redhat.com> <3E9B7BCD.6030204@rfk.com> <3E9B80DB.5000802@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 Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com 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: <3E9B80DB.5000802@rfk.com> Hi Larry, Thanks for your patience with this. > Well, a few but I can't guarantee anything. Type in the following and > send the output here: > > which chmod /usr/bin/chmod > cygcheck chmod nothing unexpected in there (pointing to appropriate cygwin and windows dlls) > > 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. ;-) [snip] Tried it, no luck :( > If this doesn't help, you're quickest solution may be converting your > partition to NTFS and using ntsec. Yeah except if I go ntfs then it cannot be a writeable linux dual-boot partition. bleugh.... Someone on the uclinux/microblaze mailing list has managed to get microblaze-gcc up and running on linux. I think when I return from holidays I'll do a linux install and start again there. Thanks for trying, I really do appreciate it, but it seems like the original stunned surprise from folks when I said I was doing linux kernel builds under cygwin had some basis in reality... Cheers, 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/