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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:28:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
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Subject: Re: How does a script find where Cygwin is installed?
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, luke.kendall wrote:

> $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -w /`
> $ echo $CYGPATH
> C:\cygwin
> $ CYGPATH=`cygpath -u "$CYGPATH"`
> $ echo $CYGPATH
> /
>
> What I really want to get is "C:/cygwin"

$ cygpath -m /

> or "/cygdrive/c/cygwin", in my case.

$ cygpath -m / | sed 's,^\([A-Za-z]\):,/cygdrive/\1,'

> Look at the weird messages I get from this chmod:
>
> $ chmod -R ug+rwX,o+rX /
> chmod: getting attributes of `//bin: No such file or directory
> [snip similar messages]

This is a bug in chmod -R that manifests in Cygwin.  The real solution is
to fix chmod, in lines 236-241 of chmod.c in fileutils-4.1-2.  A
workaround would be

$ cd / && chmod -R ug+rwX,o+rX .

(or, a bit simpler, "cd / && chmod -R a+rX,ug+w .")...

> (I'm doing this to try to ensure that if a SysAdmin user installs
> Cygwin for the actual owner of the machine, the owner will later have
> permission to update or even uninstall Cygwin themselves.)

HTH,
	Igor
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