X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44A90A1A.6080306@byu.net> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:14:18 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir References: <44A8437E.7010005@byu.net> <20060703082823.GA14901@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20060703082823.GA14901@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/3/2006 2:28 AM: >> $ mkdir unreadable >> $ chmod a-w unreadable >> $ mkdir unreadable/oops >> > Any chance you're running with administrator privileges? How'd you guess? Yes, this was on an XP machine where I have admin privileges. I found it because 'make distcheck' on the m4 package was working for me but failing for others, thanks to automake setting the srcdir tree to read-only when testing a package tarball for VPATH completeness. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEqQoa84KuGfSFAYARAsXIAJoDKUEQl1DXlkBg5ceP1DgahjTctQCgjT20 jFzBshZW9Pz/kNXZ3S5H7So= =uBb/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/