X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=wp 0k18chI4oaWJCnWp1CtjFpDr05/hnvlpZ5Dx8H+sq/e9BO00TXzetTYC5AHG2n6I +zbJfT8QgF/CpIUu9xQPBsDmSJ93M9xeaqY56tnuxyykM2gjn+IxYidEtJxfqQYz l1z8fo1NR/lwwg90FBetuZqKarL9aTrpdrnAL7ELI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; s=default; bh=rLt/eeag Y2XgiY2fRvHUGmWhqGw=; b=K7AK8UmKzdbsK1CY1NAjlOF3i4F3Anayf5rlsymu SxcGOOlkQMqDESekKmpE40rIE7srKRj30JJDsKtXk/7EViiRXy3T0HXzzziJmqb2 ZyHQ9PO6OFfk7RU46nJZJAk+Pj9A+kR4CtuAzefkJMOqrX06fxana9WO9TIYD0nN c9c= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ea0-f176.google.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.14.149.13 with SMTP id w13mr463010eej.134.1383203541697; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:12:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <526AC4AA DOT 4080208 AT cygwin DOT com> <526E9C2C DOT 7080803 AT cygwin DOT com> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:12:21 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: popen: Permission denied - error opening man page From: Balaji Venkataraman To: Cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes I finally managed to solve this. As strange (or wildly speculative) as it may sound, I have concluded the problem is related to chere (cygwin bash prompt here) somehow interfering with the permissions on sh.exe. If anybody is interested in more details, I can provide them. Thanks to Larry for his help. -- 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