X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:01:26 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Error: unable to access or write to root dir: \cygdrive\e\7x27\1423_sp Message-ID: <20100612190126.GA6724@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <28861272.post@talk.nabble.com> <28866744.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28866744.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:57:39AM -0700, roshan_9052 wrote: >Did anyone face this problem?Pls reply > >roshan_9052 wrote: >>I am trying to run a perl script that tries to create a new folder in >>the root directory cygdrive\e\7x27\1423_sp.But I keep getting the >>following error.I am running this on a windows machine.Can someone help >>me to find out the reason? >> >>Error: unable to access or write to root dir: \cygdrive\e\7x27\1423_sp If you are seeing a path with backslashes then you probably aren't using a Cygwin version of perl. Check out http://cygwin.com/problems.html if this hint doesn't solve your problem. You need to provide more details. -- 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