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Michael Kairys wrote:
> 
> "Reini Urban" <rurban AT x-ray DOT at> wrote in message 
> news:6910a60712171332t3e8db66fn4cf1a64fe611011 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com...
> 
>> Known problem and easy to fix.
>> Download the rebase package, read the readme, stop all cygwin services 
>> and
>> run rebaseall in ash.
> 
> Thank you for the timely reply! However I am stuck on what should be a 
> simple step: rebaseall tells me /tmp is not writable. I have tried a 
> variety of directories (all of which are actually writable of course) 
> and a variety of ways of geting there, including mount point, env. var, 
> etc.
> 
> Further experimentation leads me to believe the shell will return false 
> for -w of any directory. This is consistent with the apparent mode of 
> 555 I see on all of them. And of course they don't respond to chmod.  (I 
> believe this is a windows thing that I have even read about somewhere in 
> the cygwin docs...)
> 
> So I am left with the question: how would this ever work?

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod>


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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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