X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:57:05 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] chmod fails with windows path Message-ID: <20081215185705.GB6830@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4946A1DF.9020601@spiresoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4946A1DF.9020601@spiresoftware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 On Dec 15 10:28, Glenn Serre wrote: > Good morning, > > In 1.7, using chmod with a Windows path fails is in the attached > chmod_output.txt. Using a posix path works as expected. > > I can, of course, fix my makefile to not use windows paths, but it is a > change from previous behavior and seems inconsistent with the behavior of > other commands that do work on windows paths. > > So far, these commands work on windows paths > > ls > getfacl > > and these don't > > chmod > chown > chmod +x e:/tmp/gimp/*.exe > chmod: changing permissions of `e:/tmp/gimp/gimp-2.2.13-i586-setup-1.exe': No such file or directory > chmod: changing permissions of `e:/tmp/gimp/gtk+-2.10.6-1-setup.exe': No such file or directory This seems to be a problem in coreutils. I just tried the chmod function with DOS paths and it works as expected. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/