X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:26:24 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod indicates success, but does not succeed Message-ID: <20110216162623.GA10243@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <30931008.post@talk.nabble.com> <30932818.post@talk.nabble.com> <4D5ABE96.7000604@sbcglobal.net> <20110215180356.GB20118@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <30934365.post@talk.nabble.com> <20110215195733.GE6852@calimero.vinschen.de> <30936577.post@talk.nabble.com> <20110216085734.GF6852@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110216085734.GF6852@calimero.vinschen.de> 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 Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:57:34AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 16 00:45, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> On 02/15/11 19:40, hardya wrote: >> >MSYS is described as a fork of cygwin that's specially suited to being used >> >with win32. >> How would MSYS be any more "specially suited to being used with >> win32" than Cygwin itself, is it already "specially suited to being >> used with win32"?!? > >Just a typo I guess. s/win32/mingw32/ Actually, I had the same reaction as Andy at first. Then I reparsed the line to mean "pure win32 programs" and then it made more sense, even if it isn't strictly true. cgf -- 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