X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4BB4BA42.5080307@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:22:42 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod fails for MS-DOS style path in cygwin 1.7.2-2 References: <659733.98534.qm@web94508.mail.in2.yahoo.com> <20100401142149.GA30847@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100401151812.GA31433@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-reply-to: <20100401151812.GA31433@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 4/1/2010 11:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:34AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >> On 04/01/2010 07:21 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> How could a specific error message, which tells you how to turn it off, >>> be construed as a bug? >> >> Maybe a bug as in "this bothers me". > > By those criteria you classify as a bug. Bugs bug me too. I had a fly buzzing around that I just couldn't catch. Finally I got out the can of Raid and zapped it. No more bug. I was happy. But then I had to live with the smell of Raid... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple