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From: "Mark Moore" <mark DOT moore AT notlimited DOT com>
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Subject: RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 00:58:15 -0800
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Robert,

If the permission on the folder pointed to by $TEMP is going to be changed
during install, it seems to me it would be done by setup.exe.  If not, where
would that operation be performed?

It looks like chmod doesn't cut it:

markm AT fatboy ~
$ ls -ld $TEMP
d---rwx---+   7 Administ SYSTEM      16384 Apr  5 00:10
/cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP

markm AT fatboy ~
$ chmod +rw $TEMP

markm AT fatboy ~
$ ls -ld $TEMP
drw-rwxr--+   7 Administ SYSTEM      16384 Apr  5 00:10
/cygdrive/c/WINNT/TEMP

markm AT fatboy ~
$ perldoc perldoc
Error in tempfile() using /XXXXXXXXXX: Parent directory (/) is not writable
at /usr/bin/perldoc line 564

markm AT fatboy ~
$


Notice that global rw permissions don't stick.




-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:51 PM
To: Mark Moore
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 17:43, Mark Moore wrote:
> Christopher,
> 
> I've read the http://cygwin.com/lists.html.  Here's the description for
the
> mailing list I posted to:
...

> The passage "[cygwin-apps] is the preferred location for design
discussions
> and bug reports regarding cygwin's setup.exe program" prompted me to send
> the post to the cygwin-apps forum.
> 
> If this is no longer the case, someone may want to change the
instructions.

What you posted has nothing to do with setup.exe.

Rob
-- 
GPG key available at: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.


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