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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:05:01 -0500
From: JT Williams <jtw AT sfbrgenetics DOT org>
Subject: EACCES using 'touch'
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hello,

On a plain vanilla DOS 5.0/djgpp 2.03+ system, running
bash 2.04.7(2), I am unable to 'touch' a directory (but
touching a file works as expected):

% touch foo
% mkdir bar
% touch bar
touch: creating `bar': Permission denied (EACCES)
% touch -r foo bar
touch: creating `bar': Permission denied (EACCES)

-- 
j