X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Michael Kairys" Subject: Re: Intermittent perl crash (Attn: coreutils and bash maintainer) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:29:55 -0500 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <6910a60712171332t3e8db66fn4cf1a64fe611011@mail.gmail.com> <47674E3E.2080201@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 "Igor Peshansky" wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.63.0712181355260.28181@access1.cims.nyu.edu... > Heh. I just looked, and it seems you've never posted the output of > "cygcheck -svr" on your system ... Well, I didn't think I was reporting a problem except possibly with my own understanding... > I bet ... the DOS "Read-only" bit on the directory is probably set. Bingo! Having changed that, I get: > ls -ld /tmp drwxr-xr-x 12 michael None 245760 Dec 18 14:26 /tmp ... and... > if [ -w /tmp ]; then echo "Yes"; else echo "No"; fi Yes -- 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/