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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
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To: Magnus Svensson <msvensson@mysql.com>
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Subject: Re: chmod works only for cygwin processes
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On Mon, 8 May 2006, Magnus Svensson wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > [snip]
> >   Also, please verify that you're running the expected versions of
> > mkdir, chmod, ls, etc. using the 'which' command... it's just possible
> > there's a non-cygwin version in your path.
>
> mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> pwd
> /home/mysqldev
> mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> which chmod
> /usr/bin/chmod
> mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> which mkdir
> /usr/bin/mkdir
> mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> which ls
> /usr/bin/ls
> mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> which getfacl
> /usr/bin/getfacl
> mysqldev@win2003-x86:~> which cacls
> /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/cacls

FYI, 'which' doesn't know about bash aliases/functions.  You might be
better off using the 'type' bash builtin instead (this is just for the
future, please only report the results to the list if they are different
from the above).
	Igor
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